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Babak Mohammadi

Doctoral student

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VMD-GP : A New Evolutionary Explicit Model for Meteorological Drought Prediction at Ungauged Catchments

Author

  • Ali Danandeh Mehr
  • Masoud Reihanifar
  • Mohammad Mustafa Alee
  • Mahammad Amin Vazifehkhah Ghaffari
  • Mir Jafar Sadegh Safari
  • Babak Mohammadi

Summary, in English

Meteorological drought is a common hydrological hazard that affects human life. It is one of the significant factors leading to water and food scarcity. Early detection of drought events is necessary for sustainable agricultural and water resources management. For the catchments with scarce meteorological observatory stations, the lack of observed data is the main leading cause of unfeasible sustainable watershed management plans. However, various earth science and environmental databases are available that can be used for hydrological studies, even at a catchment scale. In this study, the Global Drought Monitoring (GDM) data repository that provides real-time monthly Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) across the globe was used to develop a new explicit evolutionary model for SPEI prediction at ungauged catchments. The proposed model, called VMD-GP, uses an inverse distance weighting technique to transfer the GDM data to the desired area. Then, the variational mode decomposition (VMD), in conjunction with state-of-the-art genetic programming, is implemented to map the intrinsic mode functions of the GMD series to the subsequent SPEI values in the study area. The suggested model was applied for the month-ahead prediction of the SPEI series at Erbil, Iraq. The results showed a significant improvement in the prediction accuracy over the classic GP and gene expression programming models developed as the benchmarks.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

Publishing year

2023-08

Language

English

Publication/Series

Water (Switzerland)

Volume

15

Issue

15

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MDPI AG

Topic

  • Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources

Keywords

  • drought
  • Erbil
  • evolutionary modelling
  • ungagged catchments
  • variational mode decomposition

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2073-4441