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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-505-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-505-2022
Research article
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31 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2022

Regionalization of hydrological model parameters using gradient boosting machine

Zhihong Song, Jun Xia, Gangsheng Wang, Dunxian She, Chen Hu, and Si Hong

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We performed a machine learning approach to regionalize the parameters of a China-wide hydrological model by linking six model parameters with 10 physical attributes (terrain and soil properties). The results show the superiority of machine-learning-based regionalization approach compared with the traditional linear regression method in ungauged regions. We also obtained the relative importance of attributes against model parameters.
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