A Hierchcial Bayesian Model for Spatio-Temporal Water Quality Modeling in a Chainging Climate in South Korea

Author(s):  
Minkyu Jung ◽  
Hong-Geun Choi ◽  
Dinh Huy Nguyen ◽  
Hyun-Han Kwon

<p>Contaminants that cause water pollution are generated from large areas and flow into rivers. It becomes difficult to obtain an accurate prediction of water quality due to the large spatio-temporal variability in a changing climate which in turn leads to considerable uncertainty in the estimation of water quality. Water quality over South Korea highly depends on hydrometeorological conditions due to distinct seasonality. In this context, we explored the use of hydrometeorological variables (i.e., precipitation and temperature) and the autocorrelation structure of water quality parameters in the water quality prediction model within a Bayesian modeling framework. More specifically, we analyzed explored the interdepedencies and correlations between hydrometeorological factors and the water quality parameters for the Mangyeong River basin, and built a hierarchical Bayesian regression model for the TN and TP which are main water quality paramters in South Korea. The result shows that the proposed modeling framework can capture the key aspects of the water quality paramters in terms of seasonality and their uncertainty.</p><p> </p><p>KEYWORDS: Hierarchical Bayesian Model, Meteorological factors, Water Quality prediction</p><p> </p><p>Acknowledgement</p><p>This work was funded by the Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program under Grant KMI(KMI2018-01215)</p>

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1273
Author(s):  
Jianzhuo Yan ◽  
Jiaxue Liu ◽  
Yongchuan Yu ◽  
Hongxia Xu

The current global water environment has been seriously damaged. The prediction of water quality parameters can provide effective reference materials for future water conditions and water quality improvement. In order to further improve the accuracy of water quality prediction and the stability and generalization ability of the model, we propose a new comprehensive deep learning water quality prediction algorithm. Firstly, the water quality data are cleaned and pretreated by isolation forest, the Lagrange interpolation method, sliding window average, and principal component analysis (PCA). Then, one-dimensional residual convolutional neural networks (1-DRCNN) and bi-directional gated recurrent units (BiGRU) are used to extract the potential local features among water quality parameters and integrate information before and after time series. Finally, a full connection layer is used to obtain the final prediction results of total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and potassium permanganate index (COD-Mn). Our prediction experiment was carried out according to the actual water quality data of Daheiting Reservoir, Luanxian Bridge, and Jianggezhuang at the three control sections of the Luan River in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, from 5 July 2018 to 26 March 2019. The minimum mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of this method was 2.4866, and the coefficient of determination (R2) was able to reach 0.9431. The experimental results showed that the model proposed in this paper has higher prediction accuracy and generalization than the existing LSTM, GRU, and BiGRU models.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Sahraei ◽  
Lutz Breuer ◽  
Philipp Kraft ◽  
Tobias Houska

<p>The prediction of water quality is an efficient way for managing water resources and protecting ecosystems by providing an early warning against water quality deterioration. So far, the classical approach is to predict water quality by the utilization of complex process-based water quality models. However, these models are not easy to set up and require comprehensive input data. The local characteristics, detailed process understandings and eventually data from land users such as farmers are needed, to build up a valid model structure. Such constraints can end up in wrong scientific conclusions ranging from false alarms to unpredicted environmental pollution in practical water monitoring application. Long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithms are known to be able to overcome some of the typical constraints in hydrological model applications. However, their performance in water quality prediction has rarely been explored. In this study, we investigate the ability of a LSTM model to predict the complex, nonlinear behavior of water quality parameters in the Schwingbach Environmental Observatory (SEO), Germany.  We predict weekly nitrogen-nitrate concentrations, weekly stable isotopes of water concentrations (δ<sup>18</sup>O) and daily water temperature in six stream‑ and six groundwater sources with different landuse and hillslope conditions. We use meteorological forcing data and catchment attributes as input variables. To ensure an efficient model performance, we employ a Bayesian optimization approach to optimize the hyperparameters of the LSTM. The model performance is evaluated by the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE). Our LSTM is robust in capturing the dynamics of the water quality parameters over time. The RMSE for the LSTM performance ranges from 0.27 to 3.38 mg/l, from 0.069 to 0.27 ‰ and from 1.3 to 2.1 °C for nitrogen‑nitrate, δ<sup>18</sup>O and water temperature, respectively. We compare the RMSE with statistical parameters of data. Results confirm that the LSTM is a promising tool for early risk assessment of water quality, particularly in view that only a minimal set of catchment information is needed to gain robust results.</p>


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuhua Hu ◽  
Yiran Zhang ◽  
Yaochi Zhao ◽  
Mingshan Xie ◽  
Jiezhuo Zhong ◽  
...  

An accurate prediction of cage-cultured water quality is a hot topic in smart mariculture. Since the mariculturing environment is always open to its surroundings, the changes in water quality parameters are normally nonlinear, dynamic, changeable, and complex. However, traditional forecasting methods have lots of problems, such as low accuracy, poor generalization, and high time complexity. In order to solve these shortcomings, a novel water quality prediction method based on the deep LSTM (long short-term memory) learning network is proposed to predict pH and water temperature. Firstly, linear interpolation, smoothing, and moving average filtering techniques are used to repair, correct, and de-noise water quality data, respectively. Secondly, Pearson’s correlation coefficient is used to obtain the correlation priors between pH, water temperature, and other water quality parameters. Finally, a water quality prediction model based on LSTM is constructed using the preprocessed data and its correlation information. Experimental results show that, in the short-term prediction, the prediction accuracy of pH and water temperature can reach 98.56% and 98.97%, and the time cost of the predictions is 0.273 s and 0.257 s, respectively. In the long-term prediction, the prediction accuracy of pH and water temperature can reach 95.76% and 96.88%, respectively.


Water ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iván Vizcaíno ◽  
Enrique Carrera ◽  
Margarita Sanromán-Junquera ◽  
Sergio Muñoz-Romero ◽  
José Luis Rojo-Álvarez ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Rumana Yasmin ◽  
Mehady Islam

The current study was performed to monitor in situ condition and spatio-temporal modelling of the present status of water quality parameters of different spawning grounds and sanctuaries of Hilsha. The study was conducted in nine sites in lower Padma River (Maowa) to lower Meghna River (Bhola, Patuakhali) from 1 August 2015 to 31 January 2016. This study demonstrates surface water temperature, salinity, conductivity and transparency were ranged from 19.00-33.00°C, 0.10-2.90 ppt, 125.60-4720.00 µS/cm and 6.60-74.00 cm respectively. The values of pH, DO, free CO2, total alkalinity, total hardness and free NH3 were varied from 6.00-9.50, 4.50-11.60 mg/L, 3.46-24.00 mg/L, 33.00-172.50 mg/L, 34.20-1291.00 mg/L and 0.20-1.40 mg/L respectively. Moreover, water quality model reveals that the present status of some water quality parameters (free CO2, free NH3, transparency) deviated from optimum condition suitable for the normal physiological process and spawning of Hilsha.


2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-218
Author(s):  
Farid Karimipour ◽  
Arash Madadi ◽  
Mohammad Hosein Bashough

Abstract Studies in water quality management have indicated significant relationships between land use/land cover (LULC) variables and water quality parameters. Thus, understanding this linkage is essential in protecting and developing water resources. This article extends the conventional geographical weighted regression (GWR) to a temporal version in order to take both spatial and temporal variations of such linkages into account, which has been ignored by many of the previous efforts. The approach has been evaluated for total nitrates and nitrites' concentration as the case study. For this, observations of 45 water quality sampling stations were examined in a time interval of 20 years (1992–2011), and the linkages between LULC variables and NO2 + NO3 concentration were extracted through Pearson correlation coefficient as a global regression model, the conventional geographic weighted regression, and the proposed spatio-temporal weighted regression (STWR). Comparing the results based on two global criteria of goodness-of-fitness (R2) and residual sum of squares (RSS) verifies that the simultaneous consideration of spatial and temporal variations by STWR substantially improves the results.


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