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Special Issue: Hydrological data: opportunities and barriers

Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges

Fernando Nardia Water Resources Research and Documentation Centre (WARREDOC), University for Foreigners of Perugia, Perugia, Italy;b Institute of Environment and College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE), Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida, USA;c Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Christophe Cudennecd UMR SAS, Institut Agro, INRAE, Rennes, FranceORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1707-8926
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Tommaso Abratee Earth System Monitoring Division, Infrastructure Department, World Meteorological Organization, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland
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Candice Allouchb Institute of Environment and College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE), Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida, USA
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Antonio Annisa Water Resources Research and Documentation Centre (WARREDOC), University for Foreigners of Perugia, Perugia, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6162-4691
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Thaine Assumpçãof Integrated Water Systems and Governance, IHE Delft, Delft, The NetherlandsORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3334-3352
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Alice H. Aubertg Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, SwitzerlandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6613-5942
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Dominique Bérode Earth System Monitoring Division, Infrastructure Department, World Meteorological Organization, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland
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Alessio Maria Braccinih Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organizations (DEIM), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2004-4735
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Wouter Buytaerti Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-4454
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Antara Dasguptaj Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, IndiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-484X
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David M. Hannahk School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1714-1240
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Maurizio Mazzolenil Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;m Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0913-9370
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Maria J. Polon Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research, University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain
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Øystein Sæbøo Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
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Jan Seibertp Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, SwedenORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6314-2124
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Flavia Tauroq Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5176-3492
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Florian Teicherte Earth System Monitoring Division, Infrastructure Department, World Meteorological Organization, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland;r HydroHub Project, World Meteorological Organization
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Rita Teutonicob Institute of Environment and College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE), Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9652
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Stefan Uhlenbrooks International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri LankaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3926-2599
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Cristina Wahrmann Vargast Hydrology Department, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), San José, Costa RicaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6338-5388
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Salvatore Grimaldiq Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5715-106X
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Pages 2534-2551 | Received 11 May 2020, Accepted 13 Oct 2020, Published online: 10 Jun 2021

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