Early warning for flash floods

This document gathers paper contributions from the special international workshop devoted to the problems of Early Warning for Flash Floods. Eight participants provided only abstracts gathered in materials available to the workshop. Ten participating authors agreed with a presentation of their contributions as full papers in this collection, French authors joined their contribution into one paper prepared by F. Gerard. This collection of full papers is intended to be used by the whole disaster reduction community.

The special international workshop devoted to the problems of Early Warning for Flash Floods took place in the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) in Prague on November 1-2, 2010. The workshop was organized jointly by CHMI and the Czech National Committee for Disaster Reduction within the activities of the European Network of National Platforms (ENNP) gathering national platforms from France, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. The aim of the Workshop was to put together experienced people from the European Network of National Platforms (ENNP) countries with a representative of the United States.