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8.Branch officers stay in touch with HQ about the situation. When impacts are experienced on the ground, HQ starts monitoring the dashboard and where necessary coordinate relief actions using their available materials (inception report: cars, mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, buckets).

Concept

The requirements led to a mockup of the impact table. We are currently pursuing both a "paper" form impact table and a very simple to understand dashboard. The paper table can be read without a computer by any field officer or regional red cross office. 

The dashboard is more advanced and can be read by the Tanzania Meteorological Agency. At the moment we are implementing this using GFS forecasts as a placeholder, but we plan to ensure that the forecasts that TMA produces will be used instead. This would make the dashboard directly connecting to TMA's already ongoing practices. 

Results

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Activities

2017:

• Design inception mission Dar Es Salaam with the parties involved, these include the Tanzania Meteorological Agency and Tanzania Red Cross Society.
• Set up of Delft-FEWS environment, standard data feeds and media monitoring dashboard / SMS warnings
• Review of methods and datasets in Earth2Observe and other reanalysis projects - result: list of historical meteorological/hydrological time series potentially useful for impact forecasting
• Review of online media data availability, setup of queries and access to repositories. The result is an online media dataset of public media based flood conditions and impacts in Tanzania / Dar Es Salaam (including geolocations at provincial, city or neighbourhood scale)

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• Hessel Winsemius (hessel.winsemius@deltares.nl)
• Jurjen Wagemaker (wagemaker@floodtags.com)

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