Earth and Space Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11(12)
Published: Dec. 1, 2024
Abstract
Streamflow
in
the
Colorado
River
Basin
(CRB)
is
significantly
altered
by
human
activities
including
land
use/cover
alterations,
reservoir
operation,
irrigation,
and
water
exports.
Climate
also
highly
varied
across
CRB
which
contains
snowpack‐dominated
watersheds
arid,
precipitation‐dominated
basins.
Recently,
machine
learning
methods
have
improved
generalizability
accuracy
of
streamflow
models.
Previous
successes
with
LSTM
modeling
primarily
focused
on
unimpacted
basins,
few
studies
included
impacted
systems
either
regional
or
single‐basin
modeling.
We
demonstrate
that
diverse
hydrological
behavior
river
basins
are
too
difficult
to
model
a
single,
model.
propose
method
delineate
catchments
into
categories
based
level
predictability,
characteristics,
influence.
Lastly,
we
each
category
climate
anthropogenic
proxy
data
sets
use
feature
importance
assess
whether
performance
improves
additional
relevant
data.
Overall,
cover
at
low
temporal
resolution
was
not
sufficient
capture
irregular
patterns
releases,
demonstrating
having
high‐resolution
release
global
scale.
On
other
hand,
classification
approach
reduced
complexity
has
potential
improve
forecasts
human‐altered
regions.
Water,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
17(9), P. 1404 - 1404
Published: May 7, 2025
Global
climate
change
and
accelerated
urbanization
have
intensified
extreme
rainfall
events,
exacerbating
urban
flood
risks.
Although
data-driven
models
shown
potential
in
prediction,
the
ability
of
single
to
capture
complex
nonlinear
relationships
their
sensitivity
hyperparameters
still
limit
prediction
accuracy.
To
address
these
challenges,
this
study
proposes
an
model
by
integrating
Transformer,
Long
Short-Term
Memory
(LSTM),
Sparrow
Search
Algorithm
(SSA),
combining
Transformer’s
global
feature
extraction
with
LSTM’s
temporal
modeling.
The
SSA
was
adopted
optimize
for
Transformer-LSTM
model.
Dropout
early
stopping
techniques
were
mitigate
overfitting.
Applied
Zhengzhou
city
Henan
province,
China,
achieves
a
Nash-Sutcliffe
Efficiency
(NSE)
0.971,
indicating
that
proposed
has
high
performance
flooding.
experimental
results
demonstrate
Transformer-LSTM-SSA
outperforms
standalone
LSTM,
12.9%,
10.1%,
2.9%
NSE
accuracy,
respectively,
while
reducing
MAE
62.12%,
56.9%,
34.21%,
MAPE
21.69%,
22.2%,
10.89%,
respectively.
Furthermore,
exhibits
enhanced
stability
superior
generalization
capability.
among
comparative
methods,
thereby
demonstrating
model’s
viability
providing
reliable
solution
real-time
warning.
Water,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(21), P. 3102 - 3102
Published: Oct. 29, 2024
Monthly
runoff
prediction
is
crucial
for
water
resource
allocation
and
flood
prevention.
Many
existing
methods
use
identical
deep
learning
networks
to
understand
monthly
patterns,
neglecting
the
importance
of
predictor
selection.
To
enhance
predictive
accuracy
reliability,
this
study
proposes
an
RFECV–SSA–LSTM
forecasting
approach.
It
iteratively
eliminates
predictors
derived
from
SSA
decomposition
PACF
using
recursive
feature
elimination
cross-validation
(RFECV)
identify
most
relevant
subset
predicting
target
flow.
LSTM
modeling
then
used
forecast
flows
1–7
months
into
future.
Furthermore,
RFECV–SSA
framework
complements
any
machine-learning-based
method.
demonstrate
method’s
reliability
effectiveness,
its
outputs
are
compared
across
three
scenarios:
direct
LSTM,
MIR–LSTM,
RFECV–LSTM,
historical
data
Yangxian
Hanzhong
hydrological
stations
in
Hanjiang
River
Basin,
China.
The
results
show
that
RFECV–LSTM
method
more
robust
efficient
than
MIR–LSTM
counterparts,
with
smallest
number
outliers
NSE,
NRMSE,
PPTS
under
all
scenarios.
approach
exhibits
worst
performance,
indicating
single-metric-based
selection
may
eliminate
valuable
information.
time–frequency
superior,
NSE
values
remaining
stably
around
0.95
value
greater
almost
scenarios,
outperforming
other
benchmark
models.
Therefore,
effective
highly
nonlinear
series,
exhibiting
high
generalization
ability.
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(21), P. 9185 - 9185
Published: Oct. 23, 2024
The
precise
forecasting
of
groundwater
levels
significantly
influences
plant
growth
and
the
sustainable
management
ecosystems.
Nonetheless,
non-stationary
characteristics
level
data
often
hinder
current
deep
learning
algorithms
from
precisely
capturing
variations
in
levels.
We
used
Variational
Mode
Decomposition
(VMD)
an
enhanced
Transformer
model
to
address
this
issue.
Our
objective
was
develop
a
called
VMD-iTransformer,
which
aims
forecast
level.
This
research
nine
monitoring
stations
located
Hangjinqi
Ecological
Reserve
Kubuqi
Desert,
China,
as
case
studies
over
four
months.
To
enhance
predictive
performance
we
introduced
novel
approach
fluctuations
Desert
region.
technique
achieve
predictions
conditions.
Compared
with
classic
model,
our
more
effectively
captured
non-stationarity
prediction
accuracy
by
70%
test
set.
novelty
lies
its
initial
decomposition
multimodal
signals
using
adaptive
approach,
followed
reconfiguration
conventional
model’s
structure
(via
self-attention
inversion
feed-forward
neural
network
(FNN))
challenge
multivariate
time
prediction.
Through
evaluation
results,
determined
that
method
had
mean
absolute
error
(MAE)
0.0251,
root
square
(RMSE)
0.0262,
percentage
(MAPE)
1.2811%,
coefficient
determination
(R2)
0.9287.
study
validated
VMD
iTransformer
offering
modeling
for
predicting
context,
thereby
aiding
water
resource
ecological
reserves.
VMD-iTransformer
enhances
projections
level,
facilitating
reasonable
distribution
resources
long-term
preservation
ecosystems,
providing
technical
assistance
ecosystems’
vitality
regional
development.
Earth and Space Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11(12)
Published: Dec. 1, 2024
Abstract
Streamflow
in
the
Colorado
River
Basin
(CRB)
is
significantly
altered
by
human
activities
including
land
use/cover
alterations,
reservoir
operation,
irrigation,
and
water
exports.
Climate
also
highly
varied
across
CRB
which
contains
snowpack‐dominated
watersheds
arid,
precipitation‐dominated
basins.
Recently,
machine
learning
methods
have
improved
generalizability
accuracy
of
streamflow
models.
Previous
successes
with
LSTM
modeling
primarily
focused
on
unimpacted
basins,
few
studies
included
impacted
systems
either
regional
or
single‐basin
modeling.
We
demonstrate
that
diverse
hydrological
behavior
river
basins
are
too
difficult
to
model
a
single,
model.
propose
method
delineate
catchments
into
categories
based
level
predictability,
characteristics,
influence.
Lastly,
we
each
category
climate
anthropogenic
proxy
data
sets
use
feature
importance
assess
whether
performance
improves
additional
relevant
data.
Overall,
cover
at
low
temporal
resolution
was
not
sufficient
capture
irregular
patterns
releases,
demonstrating
having
high‐resolution
release
global
scale.
On
other
hand,
classification
approach
reduced
complexity
has
potential
improve
forecasts
human‐altered
regions.