Weather Information for Disaster Anticipation: NERC Innovation Placement with Start Network

艾丽卡·汤普森博士将在Start Network（一个致力于对人道主义紧急情况作出快速反应的慈善组织）实习。Start Network目前正在寻求改进对天气预报信息的利用，以便在危机发生之前预测危机，从而提前分配资源，从而可能节省成本和生命。为了做到这一点，他们不仅要寻找天气预报，还要寻找有关预报质量的可靠信息——如果要将警报纳入决策过程，他们需要在警报发出后24小时内获得所有这些信息。汤普森博士将与Start Network的成员一起工作，创建一个快速反应的信息系统，收集并综合这些信息，形成一个简短的摘要。随着该工具针对更多不同类型的事件（如热浪、干旱等）而开发，它将能够自动完成更多这些任务，因此将成为Start和其他减少灾害风险社区的持续资源。

Dr Erica Thompson will undertake a placement with the Start Network, a group of charities working on rapid response to humanitarian emergencies. The Start Network are currently looking to improve their use of weather forecast information in order to anticipate crises before they occur, so that resources can be allocated in advance, potentially saving both costs and lives. To do this, they are looking for not only a weather forecast but also reliable information about the quality of the forecast - and they need all of it within 24 hours of an alert being raised if it is to feed into the decision process. Working together with Start Network members, Dr Thompson will create a rapid-response information system that collects and synthesises this information into a brief summary. As the tool is developed for more different types of events (such as heatwaves, droughts, etc), it will become able to do more of these tasks automatically and thus will be on ongoing resource for Start and the rest of the disaster risk reduction community.