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Title: Developing reservoir monthly inflow forecasts using artificial intelligence and climate phenomenon information

Journal Article · · Water Resources Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020482· OSTI ID:1466038

Abstract Reservoirs are fundamental human‐built infrastructures that collect, store, and deliver fresh surface water in a timely manner for many purposes. Efficient reservoir operation requires policy makers and operators to understand how reservoir inflows are changing under different hydrological and climatic conditions to enable forecast‐informed operations. Over the last decade, the uses of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining [AI & DM] techniques in assisting reservoir streamflow subseasonal to seasonal forecasts have been increasing. In this study, Random Forest [RF), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Support Vector Regression (SVR) are employed and compared with respect to their capabilities for predicting 1 month‐ahead reservoir inflows for two headwater reservoirs in USA and China. Both current and lagged hydrological information and 17 known climate phenomenon indices, i.e., PDO and ENSO, etc., are selected as predictors for simulating reservoir inflows. Results show (1) three methods are capable of providing monthly reservoir inflows with satisfactory statistics; (2) the results obtained by Random Forest have the best statistical performances compared with the other two methods; (3) another advantage of Random Forest algorithm is its capability of interpreting raw model inputs; (4) climate phenomenon indices are useful in assisting monthly or seasonal forecasts of reservoir inflow; and (5) different climate conditions are autocorrelated with up to several months, and the climatic information and their lags are cross correlated with local hydrological conditions in our case studies.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
IA0000018; DE‐IA0000018
OSTI ID:
1466038
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1402404
Journal Information:
Water Resources Research, Vol. 53, Issue 4; ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 196 works
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Web of Science

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