http://www.fews.net/
The Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) provides early warning
and vulnerability information to African countries to help them manage
threats to food security. Various data and information from remote
sensing and ground-based meteorology systems are used as indicators of
potential threats to food security. The site disseminates the
information through alerts and monthly reports. Interactive maps and
information on livelihoods and planning are also available.
http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/index.htm
FAO's Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and
Agriculture for Africa (GIEWS) provides regular bulletins on food crop
production and markets at the global level and situation reports on a
regional and country level. The system aims to provide policy-makers and
policy-analysts with the most up-to-date information available on all
aspects of food supply and demand and warnings of imminent food crises
so that timely interventions can be planned.
http://www.hewsweb.org/home_page/default.asp
Humanitarian Early Warning Services is a portal to information on
hazards for humanitarian agencies. It includes pages on drought, floods,
storms, locust swarms, volcanoes, earthquakes, weather, El Niņo,
tsunamis and socio-political developments. Although HEWSweb currently
covers mainly natural disasters, in its next development phase we can
expect to see more socio-political pages.
http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/
International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in
the Pacific, hosted on the IOC-UNESCO website, brings together
tsunami watches and warning and advisory bulletins disseminated
throughout the Pacific. The site offers information on meetings,
training programs, publications, past disasters and related links.
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center provides tsunami warnings to
most countries in the Pacific Basin as well as Hawaii and all other US
interests in the Pacific outside Alaska and the US West Coast, which are
served by the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/ATWC) in
Palmer, Alaska. The Pacific Center issues three bulletins: Pacific-wide
Tsunami Warning Bulletin, Regional Tsunami Warning/Watch Bulletin, and
Tsunami Information Bulletin. The website hosts bulletins, tsunami
information and links to relevant organizations and resources with
interactive maps providing weather forecasts.
http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/
Philippines Atmospheric, Geophysical & Astronomical Services
Administration (PAGASA) provides forecasts for typhoons, floods,
droughts, giant waves, and high seas. The website also hosts real-time
weather forecasts, shipping advisories, tropical cyclone updates,
information on flood forecasts and learning tools for meteorology.
http://www.unisdr.org/ppew/
The UN-ISDR Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning started
operating in 2004 and hosts an array of information on early warning
including information resources, upcoming events, relevant links, an
inventory of early warning systems and links to current warning events.
The program seeks to aid the development of early warning and
preparedness systems by (i) advocating for better early warning systems,
especially in development assistance policy and programs, (ii)
collecting and disseminating information on best practices, and (iii)
stimulating cooperation among early warning actors and the development
of new ways to improve early warning systems.
http://www.riskinstitute.org/
Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) is hosting a five day virtual
symposium on Early Warning Systems – Interdisciplinary Observations and
Policies from a Local Government Perspective, to discuss ways of getting
the most useful and effective early warning systems in place. The
website aims to connect users with the knowledge, resources and
information they need to help address risk management challenges. A
number of useful publications, tools and resources are available on the
site.
