Future Forces Forum

Dr. František Šopko

Future Forces Forum Geospatial, Hydrometeorological and GNSS Conference (GEOMETOC) 2018 Future Forces Exhibition 2018

Czech Hydrometeorological Institute

Presentation

News at Integrated Warning Service System (IWSS) for dangerous weather and floods

Warnings for severe weather phenomena including flood phenomena are issued by Czech Hydrometeorological Institute since the year 2000. Warnings are issued in agreement with philosophy of Meteoalarm, European warning system, and they are displayed at Meteoalarm website (www.meteoalarm.eu). This year, a new version of IWSS was put into operation. Warnings are issued using the Alert Editor application of the Visual Weather software. The application was developed by IBL software Engineering in cooperation with CHMI.

New warning websites enable better visualization of warnings for the public and other users. Warnings are now issued at the CAP protocol (Common Alerting Protocol) according to a recommendation of World Meteorological Organisation. The main advantage of this protocol is a possibility to make outputs according to the user’s needs and possibility of technological processing of information.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Institution:

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague

Date:From (month/year), To (month/year)

From 09/1980

To 06/1985

Degree: RNDr.

Institution:

Grammar School of Jan Neruda, Hellichova 3, Prague nr. 1

Date:

From (month/year)

To (month/year)

From 09/1976

To 06/1980

Employment and professional experience:

Date: From (month/year) To (month/year)

From 4/2003 till now

Institution

Czech Hydrometeorological Institution

Function

Head of meteorological forecasts dept.

Characterization of work

Head of department, issuing of forecasts, warnings and meteorological information for various users (state offices, commercial users, media, public)

Date: From (month/year) To (month/year)

From 10/1986 to 3/2003

Institution

Czech Hydrometeorological Institution

Function

Forecaster

Characterization of work

Analyses of synoptic maps, issuing of forecasts and other meteorological information for various users

Publications: articles to “Meteorological Bulletin” of Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, analysis of danger weather situations (heavy rain, thunderstorms, floods…).