Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1233-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1233-2023
Brief communication
 | 
31 Mar 2023
Brief communication |  | 31 Mar 2023

Brief communication: The potential use of low-cost acoustic sensors to detect rainfall for short-term urban flood warnings

Nadav Peleg, Herminia Torelló-Sentelles, Grégoire Mariéthoz, Lionel Benoit, João P. Leitão, and Francesco Marra

Related authors

Predicting extreme sub-hourly precipitation intensification based on temperature shifts
Francesco Marra, Marika Koukoula, Antonio Canale, and Nadav Peleg
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2023-226,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2023-226, 2023
Preprint under review for HESS
Short summary
Natural climate variability is an important aspect of future projections of snow water resources and rain-on-snow events
Michael Schirmer, Adam Winstral, Tobias Jonas, Paolo Burlando, and Nadav Peleg
The Cryosphere, 16, 3469–3488, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3469-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3469-2022, 2022
Short summary
Temperature effects on the spatial structure of heavy rainfall modify catchment hydro-morphological response
Nadav Peleg, Chris Skinner, Simone Fatichi, and Peter Molnar
Earth Surf. Dynam., 8, 17–36, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-17-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-17-2020, 2020
Short summary
Intensity–duration–frequency curves from remote sensing rainfall estimates: comparing satellite and weather radar over the eastern Mediterranean
Francesco Marra, Efrat Morin, Nadav Peleg, Yiwen Mei, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 2389–2404, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2389-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2389-2017, 2017
Short summary
Partitioning the impacts of spatial and climatological rainfall variability in urban drainage modeling
Nadav Peleg, Frank Blumensaat, Peter Molnar, Simone Fatichi, and Paolo Burlando
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 1559–1572, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1559-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1559-2017, 2017
Short summary

Related subject area

Hydrological Hazards
Sensitivity analysis of erosion on the landward slope of an earthen flood defense located in southern France submitted to wave overtopping
Clément Houdard, Adrien Poupardin, Philippe Sergent, Abdelkrim Bennabi, and Jena Jeong
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 3111–3124, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3111-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3111-2023, 2023
Short summary
Better prepared but less resilient: the paradoxical impact of frequent flood experience on adaptive behavior and resilience
Lisa Köhler, Torsten Masson, Sabrina Köhler, and Christian Kuhlicke
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2787–2806, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2787-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2787-2023, 2023
Short summary
Assessing the spatial spread–skill of ensemble flood maps with remote-sensing observations
Helen Hooker, Sarah L. Dance, David C. Mason, John Bevington, and Kay Shelton
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2769–2785, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2769-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2769-2023, 2023
Short summary
An integrated modeling approach to evaluate the impacts of nature-based solutions of flood mitigation across a small watershed in the southeast United States
Betina I. Guido, Ioana Popescu, Vidya Samadi, and Biswa Bhattacharya
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2663–2681, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2663-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2663-2023, 2023
Short summary
Indicator-to-impact links to help improve agricultural drought preparedness in Thailand
Maliko Tanguy, Michael Eastman, Eugene Magee, Lucy J. Barker, Thomas Chitson, Chaiwat Ekkawatpanit, Daniel Goodwin, Jamie Hannaford, Ian Holman, Liwa Pardthaisong, Simon Parry, Dolores Rey Vicario, and Supattra Visessri
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2419–2441, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2419-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2419-2023, 2023
Short summary

Cited articles

Ali, H., Peleg, N., and Fowler, H. J.: Global Scaling of Rainfall With Dewpoint Temperature Reveals Considerable Ocean-Land Difference, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL093798, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093798, 2021. a
Benoit, L., Allard, D., and Mariethoz, G.: Stochastic Rainfall Modeling at Sub-kilometer Scale, Water Resour. Res., 54, 4108–4130, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022817, 2018. a, b, c
Bowler, N. E., Pierce, C. E., and Seed, A. W.: STEPS: A probabilistic precipitation forecasting scheme which merges an extrapolation nowcast with downscaled NWP, Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 132, 2127–2155, https://doi.org/10.1256/qj.04.100, 2006. a
Cristiano, E., ten Veldhuis, M.-C., and van de Giesen, N.: Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall and their effects on hydrological response in urban areas – a review, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 3859–3878, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3859-2017, 2017. a
Dunkerley, D.: Acquiring unbiased rainfall duration and intensity data from tipping-bucket rain gauges: A new approach using synchronised acoustic recordings, Atmos. Res., 244, 105055, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105055, 2020. a
Download
Short summary
Floods in urban areas are one of the most common natural hazards. Due to climate change enhancing extreme rainfall and cities becoming larger and denser, the impacts of these events are expected to increase. A fast and reliable flood warning system should thus be implemented in flood-prone cities to warn the public of upcoming floods. The purpose of this brief communication is to discuss the potential implementation of low-cost acoustic rainfall sensors in short-term flood warning systems.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint