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Ronny Berndtsson

Professor, Dep Director, MECW Dep Scientific Coordinator

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Linking Hydro-Physical Variables and Landscape Metrics using Advanced Data Mining for Stream-Flow Prediction

Author

  • Vahid Moosavi
  • Ayoob Karami
  • Negin Behnia
  • Ronny Berndtsson
  • Christian Massari

Summary, in English

In Streamflow prediction the most important triggering/controlling variables are related to climate, physiography, and landscape patterns. This study investigated the effect of different landscape metrics to relate spatial patterns to surface runoff processes and predict monthly streamflow using climatic and physiographic variables for the 42 sub-basins of the Urmia Lake Basin in Iran. We developed an innovative data-driven framework and considered two different modelling approaches i.e., modelling in homogenous clusters (local approach) and modelling in the entire area as an entity (global approach). The results of basin LULC monitoring from the 20-year experimental period display drastic changes in the land use of the basin such as reduction in lake area (48.3%) due to increasing irrigated areas (22.5%), increasing residential areas (14.2%), and decrease in rangeland (6.0%). Streamflow prediction results in the global experiment showed Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) and Random Forest (RF) with NSE of 0.76 and NRMSE of 6.44% have similar results and outperformed Partial Least Squares regression (PLS), but in clustering experiment GMDH with NSE of 0.88 and NRMSE of 5% shows the highest accuracy and outperformed both RF and PLS. The results confirmed that modelling in homogenous clusters (local prediction) significantly enhanced the performance of prediction.

Department/s

  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Division of Water Resources Engineering
  • LTH Profile Area: Water

Publishing year

2022-09

Language

English

Pages

4255-4273

Publication/Series

Water Resources Management

Volume

36

Issue

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources

Keywords

  • Ecological landscape metrics
  • Machine learning
  • Runoff prediction
  • Urmia Lake

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0920-4741