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            https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1-2023
                    © Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under 
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                the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Estimating the likelihood of roadway pluvial flood based on crowdsourced traffic data and depression-based DEM analysis
Arefeh Safaei-Moghadam
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                                            Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
                                        
                                    David Tarboton
                                            Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
                                        
                                    Barbara Minsker
                                            Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
                                        
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 - Heavy rains and hydrogeological disasters on February 18th–19th, 2023, in the city of São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil: from meteorological causes to early warnings J. Marengo et al. 10.1007/s11069-024-06558-5
 - Influence of Terrain Factors on Urban Pluvial Flooding Characteristics: A Case Study of a Small Watershed in Guangzhou, China X. Zhang et al. 10.3390/w15122261
 - Predicting real-time roadway pluvial flood risk: A hybrid machine learning approach coupling a graph-based flood spreading model, historical vulnerabilities, and Waze data A. Safaei-Moghadam et al. 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131406
 - Navigating the definition of urban flooding: A conceptual and systematic review of the literature P. Alves et al. 10.2166/wst.2024.351
 - City Diagnosis as a Strategic Component in Preparing Urban Areas for Climate Change: Insights from the ‘City with Climate’ Project K. Samborska-Goik et al. 10.3390/app15084092
 
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Short summary
                    Climate change, urbanization, and aging infrastructure contribute to flooding on roadways. This study evaluates the potential for flood reports collected from Waze – a community-based navigation app – to predict these events. Waze reports correlate primarily with low-lying depressions on roads. Therefore, we developed two data-driven models to determine whether roadways will flood. Analysis showed that in the city of Dallas, drainage area and imperviousness are the most significant contributors.
                    Climate change, urbanization, and aging infrastructure contribute to flooding on roadways. This...
                    
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