Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS)
Copernicus Emergency Management Service GloFAS producing global probabilistic river discharge forecasts and flood hazard maps up to 30 days ahead, with open API and reanalysis dataset.
global-flood.emergency.copernicus.eu
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global (0.1° resolution)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
What's inside
- Flood Forecasting
- River Discharge
- Ensemble
- Reanalysis
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: River Discharge
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Hazard maps
Map flood-prone areas and who and what is exposed.
Because it has: Flood Forecasting
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Flood extent from SAR
Segment flooded areas in radar imagery, even through cloud.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
GloFAS via Copernicus CDS API
Licence: Copernicus EMS licence
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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