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- Title
Dissolved Oxygen Forecasting for Lake Erie's Central Basin Using Hybrid Long Short-Term Memory and Gated Recurrent Unit Networks.
- Authors
Pan, Daiwei; Zhang, Yue; Deng, Ying; Van Griensven Thé, Jesse; Yang, Simon X.; Gharabaghi, Bahram
- Abstract
Dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration is a pivotal determinant of water quality in freshwater lake ecosystems. However, rapid population growth and discharge of polluted wastewater, urban stormwater runoff, and agricultural non-point source pollution runoff have triggered a significant decline in DO levels in Lake Erie and other freshwater lakes located in populated temperate regions of the globe. Over eleven million people rely on Lake Erie, which has been adversely impacted by anthropogenic stressors resulting in deficient DO concentrations near the bottom of Lake Erie's Central Basin for extended periods. In the past, hybrid long short-term memory (LSTM) models have been successfully used for the time-series forecasting of water quality in rivers and ponds. However, the prediction errors tend to grow significantly with the forecasting period. Therefore, this research aimed to improve the accuracy of DO forecasting models by taking advantage of Lake Erie's real-time water quality (water temperature and DO concentration) monitoring network to establish temporal and spatial links between adjacent monitoring stations. We developed hybrid LSTM models that combine LSTM, convolutional neuron network LSTM (CNN-LSTM), hybrid CNN with gated recurrent unit (CNN-GRU) models, and convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM) to forecast near-bottom DO concentrations in Lake Erie's Central Basin. These hybrid LSTM models improve their capacity to handle complicated datasets with spatial and temporal variability. These models can serve as accurate and reliable tools for forecasting DO concentrations in freshwater lakes to help environmental protection agencies better access and manage the health of these vital ecosystems. Following analysis of a 21-site Lake Erie dataset for 2020 and 2021, the ConvLSTM model emerged as the most accurate and reliable, boasting an MSE of 0.51 mg/L, MAE of 0.42 mg/L, and an R-squared of 0.95 over the 12 h prediction range. The model foresees future hypoxia in Lake Erie. Notably, the temperature near site 713 holds significance for Central Basin DO forecasting in Lake Erie, as indicated by outcomes derived from the Shapley additive explanations (SHAP).
- Subjects
URBAN runoff; WATER quality monitoring; WATER quality; NONPOINT source pollution; LAKES; HYPOXIA (Water); ENVIRONMENTAL protection
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2024, Vol 16, Issue 5, p707
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w16050707