Articles | Volume 24, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2483-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2483-2020
Education and communication
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14 May 2020
Education and communication | Highlight paper |  | 14 May 2020

Wetropolis extreme rainfall and flood demonstrator: from mathematical design to outreach

Onno Bokhove, Tiffany Hicks, Wout Zweers, and Thomas Kent

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (11 Jan 2020) by Matjaz Mikos
AR by Onno Bokhove on behalf of the Authors (12 Jan 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (14 Jan 2020) by Matjaz Mikos
RR by Christopher Skinner (15 Feb 2020)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (19 Mar 2020)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (22 Mar 2020) by Matjaz Mikos
AR by Onno Bokhove on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (31 Mar 2020) by Matjaz Mikos
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Short summary
Wetropolis is a table-top demonstration model with extreme rainfall and flooding, including random rainfall, river flow, flood plains, an upland reservoir, a porous moor, and a city which can flood. It lets the viewer experience extreme rainfall and flood events in a physical model on reduced spatial and temporal scales with an event return period of 6.06 min rather than, say, 200 years. We disseminate its mathematical design and how it has been shown most prominently to over 500 flood victims.