Flood2now
Flood forecasting and prevention systems including citizen science
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Flood2now is a project that aims to promote the development of flood forecasting and prevention systems including citizen science.
The Flood2Now project aims to improve flood risk early warning systems from a multidisciplinary perspective. Flood2Now uses historical and citizen science information as part of the relevant data for model testing.
Flood2now has two pilots: The river Arga and the river Francolí.
The river Arga is located in the region of Navarra, northern Spain, with a catchment area of 510 km2. This pilot has been chosen because the river Arga has frequently flooded in recent years as it passes through Pamplona. In addition, Flood2Now has rainfall and flow data every 15 minutes.
The river Francolí is a torrential river with a total catchment area of 838 km², a length of 60 km and an average annual flow of 1.2 m³/s at its mouth in Tarragona. Vulnerability and exposure are high, both because of the populations that the river flows through and because of the historical heritage and critical infrastructures existing in the basin. In this pilot basin, Flood2Now will develop tools to support decision-making and improve early warning, based on meteorological and hydrological data and models, but also on impacts. This will be complemented by data collection through citizen science activities.
PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS
Project Type: National
Duration: 2022 – 2025
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Flood2Now is a university / company / social foundation collaboration from an R&D&I perspective that includes:
- The development of a comprehensive digital database of flood events over the last forty years.
- Research to define the interrelationships between the different factors involved in the impacts of floods.
- The investigation of the climatic types associated with different flood events
- The application of analogous methodology to improve flood risk forecasting
- The integration of this knowledge into improved operational systems to aid flood-related decision making
- The use of citizen science to aid in hydrological modelling and decision making
- Improving the end-to-end early warning chain including improving risk awareness and citizen participation.
IBERCIVIS’ ROLE
In this project Ibercivis is in charge of coordinating the work package aimed at obtaining information, relevant to the project, through citizen science. The aim of this task is to identify and involve stakeholders to improve the communication of flood risks to the general population and to reach a critical mass of participants for the citizen science campaigns in order to stimulate the generation of open collaborative data to complement the official hydrological measurements.
open collaborative data to complement official hydrological measurements.
OUR ACTIVITIES
Scoping of use cases and stakeholder mapping.
Participatory research activities.
Improving communication and awareness of flood risk
Downloading and development of citizen-generated data.
