Fully nonlinear statistical and machine-learning approaches for hydrological frequency estimation at ungauged sites.

Ouali, Dhouha; Chebana, Fateh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3329-8179 et Ouarda, Taha B. M. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0969-063X (2017). Fully nonlinear statistical and machine-learning approaches for hydrological frequency estimation at ungauged sites. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems , vol. 9 , nº 2. pp. 1292-1306. DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000830.

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The high complexity of hydrological systems has long been recognized. Despite the increasing number of statistical techniques that aim to estimate hydrological quantiles at ungauged sites, few approaches were designed to account for the possible nonlinear connections between hydrological variables and catchments characteristics. Recently, a number of nonlinear machine-learning tools have received attention in regional frequency analysis (RFA) applications especially for estimation purposes. In this paper, the aim is to study nonlinearity-related aspects in the RFA of hydrological variables using statistical and machine-learning approaches. To this end, a variety of combinations of linear and nonlinear approaches are considered in the main RFA steps (delineation and estimation). Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and generalized additive models (GAMs) are combined to a nonlinear ANN-based canonical correlation analysis (NLCCA) procedure to ensure an appropriate nonlinear modeling of the complex processes involved. A comparison is carried out between classical linear combinations (CCAs combined with linear regression (LR) model), semilinear combinations (e.g., NLCCA with LR) and fully nonlinear combinations (e.g., NLCCA with GAM). The considered models are applied to three different data sets located in North America. Results indicate that fully nonlinear models (in both RFA steps) are the most appropriate since they provide best performances and a more realistic description of the physical processes involved, even though they are relatively more complex than linear ones. On the other hand, semilinear models which consider nonlinearity either in the delineation or estimation steps showed little improvement over linear models. The linear approaches provided the lowest performances.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	hydrological modeling; model comparison; nonlinear hydrological process; quantile estimation; regional frequency analysis
Centre:	Centre Eau Terre Environnement
Date de dépôt:	12 févr. 2018 21:42
Dernière modification:	21 févr. 2022 17:34
URI:	https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/6324

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