Authors: Kailei Liu Cheng Yao Ji Chen Zhijia Li Qiaoling Li Leqiang Sun
Publish Date: 2016/05/30
Volume: 31, Issue: 6, Pages: 1471-1484
Abstract
This study explores the performances of three realtime updating models in improving flood forecasting accuracy The first model is the Knearest neighbor KNN algorithm The KNN algorithm estimates forecast errors based upon the most similar samples of errors rather than on the most recent ones The two other updating models are the Kalman filter KF and a combined model incorporating both the KF and KNN procedures To compare the performances of these three models this study uses the middle reaches of the Huai River in East China for a case study Using 13 flood events occurring from 2003 to 2010 as examples one hydraulic routing model is applied for flood simulation Subsequently the three updating models are utilized with lead times of 1 to 8h for updating the outputs of the hydraulic model Comparison of the updated results from the three updating models reveals that all three updating models improve the performance of the hydraulic model for flood forecasting Among them the KNN model performs more robustly for forecasts with a longer lead time than the other two updating models Statistical results show that the KNN model is capable of providing excellent forecasts with an 8h lead time in both the calibration and validation periods
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