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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ma:875351,
author = {Ma, Yueling and Montzka, Carsten and Bayat, Bagher and
Kollet, Stefan},
title = {{M}odeling of groundwater table depth anomalies using
{L}ong {S}hort-{T}erm {M}emory networks over {E}urope},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-01969},
year = {2020},
abstract = {<p>Groundwater is the dominant source of fresh water in
many European countries. However, due to a lack of
near-real-time water table depth (wtd) observations,
monitoring of groundwater resources is not feasible at the
continental scale. Thus, an alternative approach is required
to produce wtd data from other available observations
near-real-time. In this study, we propose Long Short-Term
Memory (LSTM) networks to model monthly wtd anomalies over
Europe utilizing monthly precipitation anomalies as input.
LSTM networks are a special type of artificial neural
networks, showing great promise in exploiting long-term
dependencies between time series, which is expected in the
response of groundwater to precipitation. To establish the
methodology, spatially and temporally continuous data from
terrestrial simulations at the continental scale were
applied with a spatial resolution of $0.11\°,$ ranging
from the year 1996 to 2016 (Furusho-Percot et al., 2019).
They were divided into a training set (1996 $\–$
2012), a validation set (2012 $\–$ 2014) and a testing
set (2015 -2016) to construct local models on selected
pixels over eight PRUDENCE regions. The outputs of the LSTM
networks showed good agreement with the simulation results
in locations with a shallow wtd (~3m). It is important to
note, the quality of the models was strongly affected by the
amount of snow cover. Moreover, with the introduction of
monthly evapotranspiration anomalies as additional input,
pronounced improvements of the network performances were
only obtained in more arid regions (i.e., Iberian Peninsula
and Mediterranean). Our results demonstrate the potential of
LSTM networks to produce high-quality wtd anomalies from
hydrometeorological variables that are monitored at the
large scale and part of operational forecasting systems
potentially facilitating the implementation of an efficient
groundwater monitoring system over
Europe.</p><p>Reference:</p><p>Furusho-Percot, C., Goergen,
K., Hartick, C., Kulkarni, K., Keune, J. and Kollet, S.
(2019). Pan-European groundwater to atmosphere terrestrial
systems climatology from a physically consistent simulation.
Scientific Data, 6(1).</p>},
month = {May},
date = {2020-05-04},
organization = {EGU General Assembly 2020, Online
(Online), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {IBG-3},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255) / ERA-PLANET - The European network for observing
our changing planet (689443)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255 / G:(EU-Grant)689443},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
doi = {10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5367},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/875351},
}