| Title | Convolutional neural network and long short-term memory models for ice-jam predictions |
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| Author | Madaeni, F; Chokmani, K; Lhissou, R; Homayouni, S; Gauthier, Y; Tolszczuk-Leclerc, S |
| Source | The Cryosphere vol. 16, 2022 p. 1447-1468, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1447-2022  Open Access |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20220079 |
| Publisher | European Geosciences Union |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; digital; on-line |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Ontario; Quebec; New Brunswick |
| NTS | 21E; 21F; 21G; 21H; 21I; 21J; 21K; 21L; 21M; 21N; 21O; 21P; 31E; 31F; 31G; 31H; 31I; 31J; 31K; 31L; 31M; 31N; 31O; 31P; 22A; 22B; 22C; 22D; 22E; 22F; 22G; 22H; 32A; 32B; 32C; 32D; 32E; 32F; 32G;
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| Lat/Long WENS | -80.0000 -65.0000 50.0000 45.0000 |
| Subjects | Nature and Environment; Science and Technology; ice; flood potential; floods; models; modelling |
| Illustrations | figures; tables; location maps; histograms |
| Program | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing Thematic and Geoanalytics |
| Released | 2022 04 22 |
| Abstract | In cold regions, ice jams frequently result in severe flooding due to a rapid rise in water levels upstream of the jam. Sudden floods resulting from ice jams threaten human safety and cause damage to
properties and infrastructure. Hence, ice-jam prediction tools can give an early warning to increase response time and minimize the possible damages. However, ice-jam prediction has always been a challenge as there is no analytical method available
for this purpose. Nonetheless, ice jams form when some hydrometeorological conditions happen, a few hours to a few days before the event. Ice-jam prediction can be addressed as a binary multivariate time-series classification. Deep learning
techniques have been widely used for time-series classification in many fields such as finance, engineering, weather forecasting, and medicine. In this research, we successfully applied convolutional neural networks (CNN), long shortterm memory
(LSTM), and combined convolutional-long short-term memory (CNN-LSTM) networks to predict the formation of ice jams in 150 rivers in the province of Quebec (Canada). We also employed machine learning methods including support vector machine (SVM),
k-nearest neighbors classifier (KNN), decision tree, and multilayer perceptron (MLP) for this purpose. The hydro-meteorological variables (e.g., temperature, precipitation, and snow depth) along with the corresponding jam or no-jam events are used as
model inputs. Ten percent of the data were excluded from the model and set aside for testing, and 100 reshuffling and splitting iterations were applied to 80% of the remaining data for training and 20% for validation. The developed deep learning
models achieved improvements in performance in comparison to the developed machine learning models. The results show that the CNN-LSTM model yields the best results in the validation and testing with F1 scores of 0.82 and 0.92, respectively. This
demonstrates that CNN and LSTM models are complementary, and a combination of both further improves classification. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This paper discusses river ice jam prediction models developed using artificial intelligence methods applied to historical and forecasted
hydro-meteorological (e.g., temperature, precipitation, and snow depth) data series and ice jams event datasets. The model covers 150 rivers in the province of Québec (Canada), the validation and testing results (F1 score of 0.82 and 0.92
respectively) show that the chosen approach is effective for the prediction of ice jams in Québec and potentially in other similar river basins in Canada. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 330081 |
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