Daily Streamflow Forecasting in Mountainous Catchment Using XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost
Daily Streamflow Forecasting in Mountainous Catchment Using XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost
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使用 XGBoost、LightGBM 和 CatBoost 进行山区流域的每日径流预测
DOI：
10.3390/hydrology9120226
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发表时间：
2022
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
R. Szczepanek
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作者：
R. Szczepanek
Streamflow forecasting in mountainous catchments is and will continue to be one of the important hydrological tasks. In recent years machine learning models are increasingly used for such forecasts. A direct comparison of the use of the three gradient boosting models (XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost) to forecast daily streamflow in mountainous catchment is our main contribution. As predictors we use daily precipitation, runoff at upstream gauge station and two-day preceding observations. All three algorithms are simple to implement in Python, fast and robust. Compared to deep machine learning models (like LSTM), they allow for easy interpretation of the significance of predictors. All tested models achieved Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency (NSE) in the range of 0.85–0.89 and RMSE in the range of 6.8–7.8 m3s−1.A minimum of 12 years of training data series is required for such a result. The XGBoost did not turn out to be the best model for the daily streamflow forecast, although it is the most popular model. Using default model parameters, the best results were obtained with CatBoost. By optimizing the hyperparameters, the best forecast results were obtained by LightGBM. The differences between the model results are much smaller than the differences within the models themselves when suboptimal hyperparameters are used.
