GNGTS 2018 - 37° Convegno Nazionale

426 GNGTS 2018 S essione 2.2 THE ARISTOTLE MULTI-HAZARD EXPERT ADVICE SYSTEM A. Michelini, O. Necmiog˘lu, G. Wotawa, G. Iley, A. Muscat, D. Arnold-Arias, G. Forlenza and the ARISTOTLE Team Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy The European Commission’s Emergency Response and Coordination Centre (ERCC) of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG-ECHO) is tasked with coordinating the response to crisis of EU Member States within Europe and also, as necessary, globally. Such task requires the processing of a large array of information with the primary goal of assessing rapidly the gravity of the crisis situation. The utilization of multi-hazard information across the Disaster Risk Management Cycle has proven to be important but poses many challenges when a robust operational system needs to be implemented. To reduce such analytical load, in 2015 the DG-ECHO issued a tender pilot project to develop a multi-hazard advisory service for natural hazards. The ARISTOTLE Consortium, with 15 partner institutions (11 from EU Countries; 2 from non-EU countries and 2 European organizations) operating in the Meteorological and Geophysical domains, was selected and since then it has been working to overcome the many challenges of designing, building and running a multi-hazard advisory service for ERCC with information and expert assessment and advice with respect to flooding, earthquakes, severe weather, volcanic emissions and tsunami. In 2018, a new contract (3 years) has been awarded to the ARISTOTLE2 Consortium to continue and further develop the service developed within the previous project under the new “European Natural Hazards Scientific Partnership” framework (Fig. 1). The ARISTOTLE2 (ENHSP) Consortium extends some existing hazards to global coverage and adds the “forest fire” as new hazard. A total of 14 partners and two sub-contracting institutions participate. Fig. 1 - The slide shows the management structure of the ARISTOTLE 2. The Coordination Team (currently formed by two GEO and two METEO representatives) assisted by the Service Management Team manages the project on behalf of the Steering Committee formed by all the members of the Consortium. The ENHSP Board gathers the representatives of the Expert Groups (bottom left) and the Hazard Leaders of the Multi-Hazard Operational Board (MHOB) deputed to provide the Advice Service (bottom right) to the ERCC Analytical team. The Advisory Board is formed by external experts one for each hazard and it is deputed to provide external evaluation of the project. The End User Committee being formed by ERCC, JRC and the national Civil Protection authorities seeks to improve and homogenize the information provided within the bigger EC UCPM system.