D-PHASE: Demonstration of Probabilistic Hydrological and Atmospheric Simulation of flood Events in the Alpine region

D-PHASE (Demonstration of Probabilistic Hydrological and Atmospheric Simulation of flood Events in the Alpine region) is the 2nd WWRP Forecast Demonstration Project (FDP) and aims at demonstrating some of the many achievements of the WWRP Research and Development Project

Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP), in particular the ability of forecasting heavy precipitation and related flooding events in the Alpine region.

D-PHASE thereby addresses the entire forecasting chain ranging from limited-area ensemble forecasting, high-resolution cloud-resolving atmospheric modelling, hydrological modelling, and nowcasting to decision making by the end users (civil protection authorities, water management and hydrological agencies, etc.) by setting up a real-time end-to-end forecasting system.

The D-PHASE Operations Period (DOP) has been from 1 June to 30 November 2007.

For an overview on D-PHASE and all its results see

Rotach et al. 2009, Arpagaus et al. 2009 and

Zappa et al. 2008.