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C-FLOWS
Why is it in news?
- In 2015, unprecedented and sudden floods paralysed Chennai with over 18 lakh people being displaced.
- Following this, at the behest of the office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to government of India, research institutions, chief among them the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Chennai, and IITs, got together to build a flood warning system customised for use in Chennai.
- Carrying the acronym C-FLOWS, which stands for Chennai FLOod Warning System, the six-module ensemble can predict flooding due to heavy rainfall, sea-level rise and increase in water levels of the three rivers — Cooum, Adyar and Kosasthalaiyar — that traverse the city.
C-FLOWS
- CFLOWS, which would forecast level of water logging and vulnerable locations five days ahead.
- The web-based GIS application would work as a hydrodynamic model and collate data such as water level in rivers and water bodies and rainfall to forecast floods.
Source
The Hindu