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Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
Marcus Buechel
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
Bailey Anderson
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
Louise Slater
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
Steven Reece
Department of Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Gemma Coxon
Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Simon J. Dadson
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford OX10 8BB, United Kingdom
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Weather and water extremes have devastating effects each year. One of the principal challenges for society is understanding how extremes are likely to evolve under the influence of changes in climate, land cover, and other human impacts. This paper provides a review of the methods and challenges associated with the detection, attribution, management, and projection of nonstationary weather and water extremes.
Gemma Coxon, Nans Addor, John P. Bloomfield, Jim Freer, Matt Fry, Jamie Hannaford, Nicholas J. K. Howden, Rosanna Lane, Melinda Lewis, Emma L. Robinson, Thorsten Wagener, and Ross Woods
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2459–2483, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2459-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2459-2020, 2020
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We present the first large-sample catchment hydrology dataset for Great Britain. The dataset collates river flows, catchment attributes, and catchment boundaries for 671 catchments across Great Britain. We characterise the topography, climate, streamflow, land cover, soils, hydrogeology, human influence, and discharge uncertainty of each catchment. The dataset is publicly available for the community to use in a wide range of environmental and modelling analyses.
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Short summary
We used deep learning (DL) models to simulate the amount of water moving through a river channel (discharge) based on the rainfall, temperature and potential evaporation in the previous days. We tested the DL models on catchments across Great Britain finding that the model can accurately simulate hydrological systems across a variety of catchment conditions. Ultimately, the model struggled most in areas where there is chalky bedrock and where human influence on the catchment is large.
We used deep learning (DL) models to simulate the amount of water moving through a river channel...
