Differentiable modelling to unify machine learning and physical models for geosciences

C Shen, AP Appling, P Gentine, T Bandai… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Process-based modelling offers interpretability and physical consistency in many domains of
geosciences but struggles to leverage large datasets efficiently. Machine-learning methods …

Deep learning for water quality

W Zhi, AP Appling, HE Golden, J Podgorski, L Li - Nature water, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding and predicting the quality of inland waters are challenging, particularly in the
context of intensifying climate extremes expected in the future. These challenges arise partly …

Differentiable, learnable, regionalized process‐based models with multiphysical outputs can approach state‐of‐the‐art hydrologic prediction accuracy

D Feng, J Liu, K Lawson, C Shen - Water Resources Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of hydrologic variables across the entire water cycle have significant value for
water resources management as well as downstream applications such as ecosystem and …

From hydrometeorology to river water quality: can a deep learning model predict dissolved oxygen at the continental scale?

W Zhi, D Feng, WP Tsai, G Sterle… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Dissolved oxygen (DO) reflects river metabolic pulses and is an essential water quality
measure. Our capabilities of forecasting DO however remain elusive. Water quality data …

[HTML][HTML] The suitability of differentiable, physics-informed machine learning hydrologic models for ungauged regions and climate change impact assessment

D Feng, H Beck, K Lawson… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
As a genre of physics-informed machine learning, differentiable process-based hydrologic
models (abbreviated as δ or delta models) with regionalized deep-network-based …

Groundwater level forecasting with artificial neural networks: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and non-linear …

A Wunsch, T Liesch, S Broda - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
It is now well established to use shallow artificial neural networks (ANNs) to obtain accurate
and reliable groundwater level forecasts, which are an important tool for sustainable …

Temperature outweighs light and flow as the predominant driver of dissolved oxygen in US rivers

W Zhi, W Ouyang, C Shen, L Li - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
The concentration of dissolved oxygen (DO), an important measure of water quality and river
metabolism, varies tremendously in time and space. Riverine DO is commonly perceived as …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of runoff generation driving factors based on hydrological model and interpretable machine learning method

S Wang, H Peng, Q Hu, M Jiang - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region **aoqing River Basin, Shandong Province, China Study Focus
Identifying the driving factors of temporal and spatial variation in runoff is key to water …

From calibration to parameter learning: Harnessing the scaling effects of big data in geoscientific modeling

WP Tsai, D Feng, M Pan, H Beck, K Lawson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The behaviors and skills of models in many geosciences (eg, hydrology and ecosystem
sciences) strongly depend on spatially-varying parameters that need calibration. A well …

Assessing the physical realism of deep learning hydrologic model projections under climate change

S Wi, S Steinschneider - Water Resources Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines whether deep learning models can produce reliable future projections
of streamflow under warming. We train a regional long short‐term memory network (LSTM) …