Deep learning hybrid model with Boruta-Random forest optimiser algorithm for streamflow forecasting with climate mode indices, rainfall, and periodicity
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Article Title | Deep learning hybrid model with Boruta-Random forest optimiser algorithm for streamflow forecasting with climate mode indices, rainfall, and periodicity |
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ERA Journal ID | 1949 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Ahmed, A. A. Masrur (Author), Deo, Ravinesh C. (Author), Feng, Qi (Author), Ghahramani, Afshin (Author), Raj, Nawin (Author), Yin, Zhenliang (Author) and Yang, Linshan (Author) |
Journal Title | Journal of Hydrology |
Journal Citation | 599, pp. 1-23 |
Article Number | 126350 |
Number of Pages | 23 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
ISSN | 0022-1694 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126350 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169421003978 |
Abstract | Long-term forecasting of any hydrologic phenomena is essential for strategic environmental planning, hydrologic and other forms of structural design, agriculture, and water resources management. Climate mode indices, utilising machine learning methods, are frequently considered as predictor variables in order to forecast several different hydrological variables. In this study, a feature selection algorithm based on two different deep learning models, i.e., long short-term memory and a gated recurrent unit, is applied to improve the forecasting capability of streamflow water levels at six gauging stations in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia. This paper therefore aggregates the significant antecedent lag memory of climate mode indices, rainfall, and the monthly factor based on the periodicity as the predictor variables to attain significantly accurate stream water level forecasts. This novel method identifies an improved relationship between the stream water level and climate mode indices through the aggregation of the significant lagged datasets capturing the historical features to predict the future streamflow water level. The boruta feature selection algorithm (BRF) was then applied in a two phase process before and after attaining the significant lagged inputs to screen the optimum predictor variables. The merits of the forecast models were evaluated through different performance evaluation criteria. The results show that the accumulated significant lagged inputs based on climate mode indices, along with the rainfall and periodicity factors are seen to provide improved forecasting of the SWL over the non-BRF deep learning approaches where no prior feature selection was applied. The hybrid LSTM method (i.e., BRF-LSTM model) achieved a unique advantage in terms of SWL forecasting, particularly attaining over 98% of the predictive errors lying within a band of +/-0.015 m with relatively low relative errors (RRMSE ≈1.30% and RMAE ≈ 0.882%), outperforming all of the benchmark models. It is also found that the periodicity factor has a potential influence on the accuracy of the forecast models for the four monitored study stations. This study concludes that the newly developed hybrid deep learning approaches, coupled with the BRF feature selection, provide improved forecasting performance. The hybrid approach developed in this paper can therefore be used to provide a strong provide predictive response algorithm for the hydrological variables that were influenced by the low-frequency variability of the climate model indices in respect to streamflow water level. |
Keywords | Stream water level; Climate indices; Boruta-random forest hybridizer algorithm (BRF)Significant lag memory; Murray Darling Basin; long short-term memory (LSTM) |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 460207. Modelling and simulation |
410404. Environmental management | |
Public Notes | This project was supported by a USQ-CAS Postgraduate Research Scholarship under USQ-CAS Grant held by Professor Ravinesh Deo (USQ) and Professor Qi Feng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS). |
Byline Affiliations | School of Sciences |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Funding source | Grant ID USQ-CAS Grant 2018-2021 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6560/deep-learning-hybrid-model-with-boruta-random-forest-optimiser-algorithm-for-streamflow-forecasting-with-climate-mode-indices-rainfall-and-periodicity
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