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Web-messaging-based dissemination of urban rainfall and flood information: a Telegram bot framework

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Cities serve as major economic centers and experience significant socio-economic impacts from urban flooding, necessitating user-friendly decision-support tools. This study presents an R-based automated, web-messaging-based quasi-operational near real-time framework for rainfall and flood information dissemination. The framework integrates automated data acquisition and develops rainfall and consequence-specific flood risk maps using a probabilistic hazard-vulnerability approach; offering a scalable tool in resource-constrained cities, with potential extension to finer temporal scales.

Source: npj natural hazards.

DOI: 10.1038/s44304-026-00234-3

Authors: Padmini Ponukumati, Satish Kumar Regonda

Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Language: English

Topic: Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Clean water and sanitation, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,090