Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: opportunities and challenges

Assumpção, Thaine H.; Popescu, Ioana; Jonoski, Andreja; Solomatine, Dimitri P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1473-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1473-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1473-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

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28 Feb 2018

Review article | Highlight paper |

| 28 Feb 2018

Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: opportunities and challenges

Thaine H. Assumpção, Ioana Popescu, Andreja Jonoski, and Dimitri P. Solomatine

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Final revised paper (published on 28 Feb 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 26 Jul 2017)

Interactive discussion

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'A interesting and timely review with several improvement possibilities', M. Moy de Vitry, 06 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Response to M. Moy de Vitry', Thaine Herman Assumpção, 18 Oct 2017
RC1: 'Comments to authors', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Oct 2017
- AC2: 'Response to comments', Thaine Herman Assumpção, 15 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Referee comment to hess-2017-456', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Oct 2017
- AC3: 'Response to comments', Thaine Herman Assumpção, 15 Nov 2017
RC3: 'Comments on "Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: opportunities and challenges" paper', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Nov 2017
- AC4: 'Response to comments', Thaine Herman Assumpção, 15 Nov 2017
  - RC4: 'Remarks to authors' answers to previous comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 15 Nov 2017
    - AC5: 'Response to remarks', Thaine Herman Assumpção, 21 Nov 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (26 Nov 2017) by Anas Ghadouani

AR by Thaine H. Assumpção on behalf of the Authors (05 Jan 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Jan 2018) by Anas Ghadouani

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (13 Jan 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (16 Jan 2018) by Anas Ghadouani

AR by Thaine H. Assumpção on behalf of the Authors (24 Jan 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Jan 2018) by Anas Ghadouani

AR by Thaine H. Assumpção on behalf of the Authors (26 Jan 2018)

Short summary

Citizens can contribute to science by providing data, analysing them and as such contributing to decision-making processes. For example, citizens have collected water levels from gauges, which are important when simulating/forecasting floods, where data are usually scarce. This study reviewed such contributions and concluded that integration of citizen data may not be easy due to their spatio-temporal characteristics but that citizen data still proved valuable and can be used in flood modelling.