Visiting Research Fellow Pablo Suarez Co-Authors New Paper on Improving Flood Forecasts

Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper exploring opportunities for improved flood forecasts, particularly through better collaboration between the satellite remote sensing and forecasting communities. The paper, titled “Perspectives on flood forecast-based early action and opportunities for Earth observations,” was published in the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing.

The paper builds on a collaboration between NASA and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (of which Suarez is Associate Director for Research and Innovation), begun at a 2018 workshop that sought to identify new ways to link humanitarian response with NASA’s Earth Observation (EO) capabilities. The paper is also an outgrowth of a 2012 Pardee Center Report titled Games for a New Climate: Experiencing the Complexity of Future Risks, which was the result of a 12-member Task Force convened by the Pardee Center in collaboration with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.

Read the paper here.