Chapter V: Summary
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Summary
Despite the fact that NWP models gave a relatively good prediction of the event, the remote sensing data are of high importance when monitoring the situation in real time as well as for post-processing and documenting the event.
Based on NWP information, Slovenian and Croatian meteorological and hydrological specialists issued warnings well in advance, but due to the extremity of the event the damage was still huge in both countries. Many precipitation records were broken. Aside from the already well known satellite and radar products presented here, Application Facilities on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF) products are presented for the first time as well. The main focus is on precipitation and soil moisture products. In this selected case H-SAF ASS-1 performed the best, but H-01 and H-02 also gave promising results. Unfortunately H-05 gave too low precipitation accumulation to be included in the hydrological model. Concerning the soil moisture, we judge large scale surface soil moisture (SM-OBS-1) to be a good product when taking into account its spatial resolution. We would like to stress that these are pre-results on H-SAF and that we are sure that additional progress has been made in all H-SAF products in the past year. So additional studies will also be conducted to see the improvement in the cases of extreme precipitation events.