Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards
and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards
and Earth System Sciences
Articles | Volume 21, issue 8
Articles | Volume 21, issue 8
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 2407–2425, 2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2407-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 2407–2425, 2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2407-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 8

Research article 17 Aug 2021

Research article | 17 Aug 2021

Social sensing of high-impact rainfall events worldwide: a benchmark comparison against manually curated impact observations

Michelle D. Spruce et al.

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Despite increased use of impact-based weather warnings, the social impacts of extreme weather events lie beyond the reach of conventional meteorological observations and remain difficult to quantify. This study compares data collected from the social media platform Twitter with a manually curated database of high-impact rainfall events across the globe between January–June 2017. Twitter is found to be a good detector of impactful rainfall events and, therefore, a useful source of impact data.
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