Ibero-American Network on monitoring and forecasting of hydrometeorological phenomena
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PROHIMET (Ibero-American Network on monitoring and forecasting of hydrometeorological phenomena) is a thematic network, of ibero-american scope, which gathers specialists, of several disciplines, especially worried about the problem of floods, although they also cope with the problems related to droughts and climate change.PROHIMET is a linkage and a cooperation framework for seeking the following specific objectives:
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To enlarge the cooperation between the scientific communities of hydrologist and meteorologists, and to stimulate their interaction with other institutions which have relation with both, as it is the case of the civil protection services.
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To establish a multinational cooperation, in the ibero-american region, for the use of new techniques of hydrometeorological forecasting.
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To encourage staff training and capacity building in the use of modern tools for hydrometeorological monitoring, forecast and dissemination, as well as all matters dealing with the concepts of risk, hazard and vulnerability.
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To analyze and to evaluate the state of development and the lacks and needs of the ibero-american countries in regards to the forecast and warning systems and hydrometeorological phenomena related measures.
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To promote the development of pilot projects, that would be used as demonstration cases.