Updated: 15-12-2023
Source: China Meteorological News Press
On December 6, Shanghai Municipal Meteorological Service (SMMS) and Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) held an online symposium on the redevelopment of the Urban Multi-hazard Early Warning Toolbox (UMEWT) for Macao, on the occasion of which it was made clear that a joint working group (JWG) would be set up to accelerate the process of about one year.
By redeveloping the toolbox as a local version, the tailored UMEWT will boast Macao's unique advantages such as storm surge warning stickers and Chinese-Portuguese bilingualism, as well as Shanghai's advanced experiences in the urban waterlogging risk warning modeling, numerical typhoon prediction modeling, and the meteorological risk assessment and warning for sectors like tourism, transportation and health, hence a win-win game via a partnership of strong players.
Spearheaded by SMMS, UMEWT integrates institutional tools, algorithmic modeling tools, operational system tools and experience cases that support urban multi-hazard early warning risk assessment, monitoring and alerting, information dissemination and emergency response. It provides countries in need with ready-to-use services, open-source interfaces, tailor-made services, convergence and sharing, myriad options and forms that are conducive to lowering operationaldifficulty as well as redevelopment and learning costs. The Toolbox can also provide weather-based and scenario-based full chain solutions to common urban problems in disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Editor:JIANG Zhiqing