NaDiNe - Natural Disasters Networking Platform
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The destructive force of extreme natural events increasingly leads to the loss of human lives and material damage. With the number of natural disasters globally increasing, coordinated disaster management is getting more important. Over the past years, several research centres within the Helmholtz Association have established a comprehensive expertise in the field of disaster management.
NaDiNe is the Natural Disasters Networking Platform of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in the area of natural disasters. The mission of the platform is to bundle and link the existing scientific expertise within the the Helmholtz Association in order to support disaster management In addition, in the event of a catastrophic occurrence, up-to-date information will be edited and evaluated from a scientific point of view for the press and the public.
In order to support the transfer of knowledge in practice, so-called expert teams will continue to be established for different natural hazards. In the NaDiNe flood experts team, representatives from the Helmholtz centres German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have joined forces in order to bundle their expertise and to exchange state-of-the-art knowledge in their scientific fields. Hydrologists, focussing on research in hydraulic modelling and damage degree estimation, as well as meteorologists and remote sensing specialists concentrating on the assessment, description, and analysis of floods, work in the team. Overall, there are expert teams on earthquakes, floods, oil spills, storms and storm surges, and tsunamis.
The project works on the following products:
The objectives and tasks of the networking platform of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in the area of natural disasters are:
Climate scenarios are not considered
The consequences of the climate change will be described for floods, storms and storm surges.
Not considered in terms of the climate change: support of disaster management in case of natural disasters.
The objectives of the Natural Disasters Networking Platform are:
Helmholtz research network "Integrated Observation System" (Helmholtz-EOS)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
participating Helmholtz Centres: Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), German Aerospace Centre (DLR), GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
GFZ - GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
Telegrafenberg
D-14473 Potsdam