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Record W2320684931 · doi:10.1061/40569(2001)54

Developing Runoff Hydrograph using Artificial Neural Networks

2001· article· en· W2320684931 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

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Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHydrological Forecasting Using AI
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
KeywordsHydrographSurface runoffArtificial neural networkPrecipitationRunoff modelComputer scienceFlow (mathematics)Environmental scienceWatershedHydrology (agriculture)MeteorologyMathematicsMachine learningGeologyGeographyGeotechnical engineering

Abstract

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Conceptual models are considered to be the best choice for describing the runoff process in a watershed. However, enormous requirements for topographic, hydrologic and meteorological data and extensive time commitment for calibration of conceptual models (both physically based and lumped) are often prohibitive factors in considering this option. Artificial neural networks (ANN) can be an efficient way of modeling the runoff process in situations where explicit knowledge of the internal hydrologic processes is not required. An (ANN) is a flexible mathematical structure that is capable of identifying complex nonlinear relationships between input and output data sets. Neural networks provide model-free solutions. This paper highlights the use of ANN for predicting the peak flow, timing and shape of runoff hydrograph, based on causal meteorological parameters. Antecedent precipitation index, melt index, winter precipitation, spring precipitation, and timing are the five parameters used to develop runoff hydrograph on the Red River in Manitoba, Canada. A feed forward artificial neural network is trained by using back-percolation algorithm. Peak flow, time of peak, width of hydrograph at 75% and 50% of peak, base flow, and timing of rising and falling limbs of hydrograph are the output parameters obtained from the neural network to develop a runoff hydrograph. The ANN generated results are evaluated using statistical parameters; % error and correlation. The % errors in simulated and observed peak flow and time of peak is 6 and 3.6 % respectively. Correlation between observed and simulated values of peak flow and time of peak is 0.99 and 0.88, respectively, thus showing potential benefits of using ANN for developing runoff hydrograph.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.071
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2001
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