Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1473-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1473-2018
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28 Feb 2018
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Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: opportunities and challenges

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

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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.
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