C-FLOOD Unified Inundation Forecasting System
Source: PIB
GS III: Disaster and disaster management
Overview
- News in Brief
- C-FLOOD
Why in the News?
Union Minister of Jal Shakti inaugurated C-FLOOD, a Unified Inundation Forecasting System collaboratively developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and Central Water Commission (CWC), Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation (DoWR, RD & GR), Ministry of Jal Shakti
News in Brief
- The inauguration ceremony was held at Shram Shakti Bhawan, New Delhi, in the presence of senior officers from the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation (DoWR, RD & GR), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
- This initiative, executed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) jointly steered by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
- C-FLOOD marks a transformative step towards strengthening India’s flood management and disaster response framework.
About C-FLOOD Unified Inundation Forecasting System
- C-FLOOD is a web-based platform that provides two-day advance inundation forecasts up to village level in the form of flood inundation maps and water level predictions.
- The platform will act as a unified system integrating flood modelling outputs from national and regional agencies, offering a comprehensive decision-support tool for disaster management authorities.
- At present, the system covers the Mahanadi, Godavari, and Tapi river basins, with more river basins to be incorporated in the future.
- The C-FLOOD platform uses advanced 2-D hydrodynamic modelling to simulate flood scenarios.
- The simulations for the Mahanadi Basin are run on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure under NSM at C-DAC Pune, with integration of outputs for Godavari and Tapi Basins, which have been developed by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) under the National Hydrology Project (NHP).
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