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Articles | Volume 29, issue 3
Articles | Volume 29, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-767-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-767-2025
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Articles | Volume 29, issue 3
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13 Feb 2025
Research article | Highlight paper |  | 13 Feb 2025

Creating a national urban flood dataset for China from news texts (2000–2022) at the county level

Shengnan Fu, David M. Schultz, Heng Lyu, Zhonghua Zheng, and Chi Zhang

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This paper uses information from news sites with natural language processing tools to infer data on a hydrological process at the regional scale (flooding). The paper demonstrates the technique's applicability and opens new avenues to use advanced computing techniques and web resources to improve the understanding of hydrological processes.
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We create China’s first open county-level urban flood dataset (2000–2022) using news media data with the help of deep learning.  The dataset reflects both natural and societal influences and includes 7595 urban flood events across 2051 counties, covering 46 % of China’s land area. It reveals the predominance of summer floods, an upward trend since 2000, and a decline from southeast to northwest. Notably, some highly developed regions show a decrease, likely due to improved flood management.
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