Early warning systems (Q510)
Subject, term, tag: Early warning systems
- Early warning systems (EWS)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Early warning systems |
Subject, term, tag: Early warning systems |
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Statements
IPCC Glossary v1.5
1 reference
27 May 2026
The set of technical and institutional capacities to forecast, predict, and communicate timely and meaningful warning information to enable individuals, communities, managed ecosystems, and organisations threatened by a hazard to prepare to act promptly and appropriately to reduce the possibility of harm or loss. Depending upon context, EWS may draw upon scientific and/or Indigenous knowledge, and other knowledge types. EWS are also considered for ecological applications, e.g., conservation, where the organisation itself is not threatened by hazard but the ecosystem under conservation is (e.g., coral bleaching alerts), in agriculture (e.g., warnings of heavy rainfall, drought, ground frost, and hailstorms) and in fisheries (e.g., warnings of storm, storm surge, and tsunamis). (English)
IPCC Glossary v1.5
1 reference
27 May 2026