Modelling the effect of land use change on hydrological model parameters via linearized calibration method in the upstream of Huaihe River Basin, China

Conceptual rainfall–runoff models have become a basic tool for evaluating effects of land use/cover changes on the hydrologic processes in small-scale as well as large watersheds. The runoff-producing mechanism is influenced by land use/cover changes. In this study, we analysed the effect of land use change on hydrological model parameters by calibrating the model parameters of different time periods with different land use via a linearized calibration method. The parameter calibration of a conceptual model usually involves the construction of objective function and optimization methods for good performance of observed data. However, the objective function of the minimum-sum-squared error will introduce an unrelated optimum solution for the parameter calibration problem of a conceptual model, which belongs to a highly complex nonlinear system. Thus, a linearized parameter calibration method, which searches for the optimal value on a parameter surface, is presented, based on the analysis of the problems of the objective function of the minimum-sum-squared error. Firstly, an ideal model is shown that illustrates the efficiency and applicability of this method. Secondly, the novel method is demonstrated for solving the Xinanjiang daily model parameter calibration. Finally, 50 years of data are divided into 4 different periods for parameter comparison, through which the effects of land use/cover changes on runoff in Dapoling watershed are evaluated. The results show that the linearized parameter calibration method is convergent, reasonable and effective. For example, the model parameter of evapotranspiration coefficient KC varied considerably, from 0.658 to 0.922, in response to land use/cover change within the watershed.Keywords: land use/cover change; parameter calibration; linearized; upper Huaihe River Basi

Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling

Urbanization has significant impact on the hydrological processes that have caused an increase in magnitude and frequency of floods; therefore, a reliable rainfall-runoff model will be helpful to estimate discharge for any watershed management plans. Beside physically-based models, the data driven approaches have been also used frequently to model the rainfall-runoff processes. Neuro-fuzzy systems (NFS) as one of the main category of data-driven models are common in hydrological time series modeling. Among the different algorithms, Adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is well-practiced in hydrological modeling. ANFIS is an offline model and needs to be retrained periodically to be updated. Therefore, an NFS model that can employ different learning process to overcome such problem is needed. This study developed dynamic evolving neuro fuzzy inference system (DENFIS) model for event based and continuous rainfallrunoff modeling and the results were compared with the existing models to check model capabilities. DENFIS evolves through incremental learning in which the rulebase is evolved after accommodating each individual new input data and benefitted from local learning implemented through the clustering method, Evolving Clustering Method (ECM). In this study, extreme events were extracted from the historical hourly data of selected tropical catchments of Malaysia. The DENFIS model performances were compared with ANFIS, the hydrologic modeling system (HECHMS) and autoregressive model with exogenous inputs (ARX) for event based rainfall-runoff modeling. DENFIS model was also evaluated against ANFIS for continuous rainfall-runoff modeling on a daily and hourly basis, multi-step ahead runoff forecasting and simulation of the river stage. The average coefficients of efficiency (CE) obtained from DENFIS model for the events in testing phase were 0.81, 0.79 and 0.65 for Lui, Semenyih and Klang catchments respectively which were comparable with ANFIS and HEC-HMS and were better than ARX. The CEs obtained from DENFIS model for hourly continuous were 0.93, 0.92 and 0.62 and for daily continuous were 0.73, 0.67 and 0.54 for Lui, Semenyih and Klang catchments respectively which were comparable to the ones obtained from ANFIS. The performances of DENFIS and ANFIS were also comparable for multistep ahead prediction and river stage simulation. This study concluded that less training time and flexibility of the rule-base in DENFIS is an advantage compared to an offline model such as ANFIS despite the fact that the results of the two models are generally comparable. However, the learning algorithm in DENFIS was found to be potentially useful to develop adaptable runoff forecasting tools

Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modeling

Urbanization has significant impact on the hydrological processes that have caused an increase in magnitude and frequency of floods; therefore, a reliable rainfall-runoff model will be helpful to estimate discharge for any watershed management plans. Beside physically-based models, the data driven approaches have been also used frequently to model the rainfall-runoff processes. Neuro-fuzzy systems (NFS) as one of the main category of data-driven models are common in hydrological time series modeling. Among the different algorithms, Adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is well-practiced in hydrological modeling. ANFIS is an offline model and needs to be retrained periodically to be updated. Therefore, an NFS model that can employ different learning process to overcome such problem is needed. This study developed dynamic evolving neuro fuzzy inference system (DENFIS) model for event based and continuous rainfallrunoff modeling and the results were compared with the existing models to check model capabilities. DENFIS evolves through incremental learning in which the rulebase is evolved after accommodating each individual new input data and benefitted from local learning implemented through the clustering method, Evolving Clustering Method (ECM). In this study, extreme events were extracted from the historical hourly data of selected tropical catchments of Malaysia. The DENFIS model performances were compared with ANFIS, the hydrologic modeling system (HECHMS) and autoregressive model with exogenous inputs (ARX) for event based rainfall-runoff modeling. DENFIS model was also evaluated against ANFIS for continuous rainfall-runoff modeling on a daily and hourly basis, multi-step ahead runoff forecasting and simulation of the river stage. The average coefficients of efficiency (CE) obtained from DENFIS model for the events in testing phase were 0.81, 0.79 and 0.65 for Lui, Semenyih and Klang catchments respectively which were comparable with ANFIS and HEC-HMS and were better than ARX. The CEs obtained from DENFIS model for hourly continuous were 0.93, 0.92 and 0.62 and for daily continuous were 0.73, 0.67 and 0.54 for Lui, Semenyih and Klang catchments respectively which were comparable to the ones obtained from ANFIS. The performances of DENFIS and ANFIS were also comparable for multistep ahead prediction and river stage simulation. This study concluded that less training time and flexibility of the rule-base in DENFIS is an advantage compared to an offline model such as ANFIS despite the fact that the results of the two models are generally comparable. However, the learning algorithm in DENFIS was found to be potentially useful to develop adaptable runoff forecasting tools

Flood Forecasting Using Machine Learning Methods

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Flood Forecasting Using Machine Learning Methods that was published in Wate

Rainfall and runoff estimation using hydrological models and Ann techniques

Water is one of the most important natural resources and a key element in the socio-economic development of a State and Country. Water resources of the world in general and in India are under heavy stress due to increased demand and limitation of available quantity. Proper water management is the only option that ensures a squeezed gap between the demand and supply. Rainfall is the major component of the hydrologic cycle and this is the primary source of runoff. Worldwide many attempts have been made to model and predict rainfall behaviour using various empirical, statistical, numerical and deterministic techniques. They are still in research stage and needs more focussed empirical approaches to estimate and predict rainfall accurately. Various spatial interpolation techniques to obtain representative rainfall over the entire basin or sub-basins have also been used in the past. In the present work, estimation of mean rainfall over the Mahanadi basin lying in Odisha and its sub-basins has been done using different deterministic and geo-statistical methods including nearest neighbourhood, Spline, Inverse-distance weighting, and Kriging techniques. Different thematic maps for the study area have been developed for water resources assessment, planning and development analysis

Advances in Sustainable River Management

The main objective of this Special Issue is to contribute in understanding and provide science-based knowledge, new ideas/approaches and solutions in sustainable river management, to improve water management policies and practices following different environmental requirements aspects

Hydroinformatics and diversity in hydrological ensemble prediction systems

Nous abordons la prévision probabiliste des débits à partir de deux perspectives basées sur la complémentarité de multiples modèles hydrologiques (diversité). La première exploite une méthodologie hybride basée sur l’évaluation de plusieurs modèles hydrologiques globaux et d’outils d’apprentissage automatique pour la sélection optimale des prédicteurs, alors que la seconde fait recourt à la construction d’ensembles de réseaux de neurones en forçant la diversité. Cette thèse repose sur le concept de la diversité pour développer des méthodologies différentes autour de deux problèmes pouvant être considérés comme complémentaires. La première approche a pour objet la simplification d’un système complexe de prévisions hydrologiques d’ensemble (dont l’acronyme anglais est HEPS) qui dispose de 800 scénarios quotidiens, correspondant à la combinaison d’un modèle de 50 prédictions météorologiques probabilistes et de 16 modèles hydrologiques globaux. Pour la simplification, nous avons exploré quatre techniques: la Linear Correlation Elimination, la Mutual Information, la Backward Greedy Selection et le Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II). Nous avons plus particulièrement développé la notion de participation optimale des modèles hydrologiques qui nous renseigne sur le nombre de membres météorologiques représentatifs à utiliser pour chacun des modèles hydrologiques. La seconde approche consiste principalement en la sélection stratifiée des données qui sont à la base de l’élaboration d’un ensemble de réseaux de neurones qui agissent comme autant de prédicteurs. Ainsi, chacun d’entre eux est entraîné avec des entrées tirées de l’application d’une sélection de variables pour différents échantillons stratifiés. Pour cela, nous utilisons la base de données du deuxième et troisième ateliers du projet international MOdel Parameter Estimation eXperiment (MOPEX). En résumé, nous démontrons par ces deux approches que la diversité implicite est efficace dans la configuration d’un HEPS de haute performance.In this thesis, we tackle the problem of streamflow probabilistic forecasting from two different perspectives based on multiple hydrological models collaboration (diversity). The first one favours a hybrid approach for the evaluation of multiple global hydrological models and tools of machine learning for predictors selection, while the second one constructs Artificial Neural Network (ANN) ensembles, forcing diversity within. This thesis is based on the concept of diversity for developing different methodologies around two complementary problems. The first one focused on simplifying, via members selection, a complex Hydrological Ensemble Prediction System (HEPS) that has 800 daily forecast scenarios originating from the combination of 50 meteorological precipitation members and 16 global hydrological models. We explore in depth four techniques: Linear Correlation Elimination, Mutual Information, Backward Greedy Selection, and Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II). We propose the optimal hydrological model participation concept that identifies the number of meteorological representative members to propagate into each hydrological model in the simplified HEPS scheme. The second problem consists in the stratified selection of data patterns that are used for training an ANN ensemble or stack. For instance, taken from the database of the second and third MOdel Parameter Estimation eXperiment (MOPEX) workshops, we promoted an ANN prediction stack in which each predictor is trained on input spaces defined by the Input Variable Selection application on different stratified sub-samples. In summary, we demonstrated that implicit diversity in the configuration of a HEPS is efficient in the search for a HEPS of high performance

Climate Models

Climate models is a very broad topic, so a single volume can only offer a small sampling of relevant research activities. This volume of 14 chapters includes descriptions of a variety of modeling studies for a variety of geographic regions by an international roster of authors. The climate research community generally uses the rubric climate models to refer to organized sets of computer instructions that produce simulations of climate evolution. The code is based on physical relationships that describe the shared variability of meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity, precipitation rate, circulation, radiation fluxes, etc. Three-dimensional climate models are integrated over time in order to compute the temporal and spatial variations of these parameters. Model domains can be global or regional and the horizontal and vertical resolutions of the computational grid vary from model to model. Considering the entire climate system requires accounting for interactions between solar insolation, atmospheric, oceanic and continental processes, the latter including land hydrology and vegetation. Model simulations may concentrate on one or more of these components, but the most sophisticated models will estimate the mutual interactions of all of these environments. Advances in computer technology have prompted investments in more complex model configurations that consider more phenomena interactions than were possible with yesterday s computers. However, not every attempt to add to the computational layers is rewarded by better model performance. Extensive research is required to test and document any advantages gained by greater sophistication in model formulation. One purpose for publishing climate model research results is to present purported advances for evaluation by the scientific community