Development and evaluation of flood forecasting models for forecast-based financing using a novel model suitability matrix

Forecast-based financing is a financial mechanism that facilitates humanitarian actions prior to anticipated floods by triggering release of pre-allocated funds based on exceedance of flood forecast thresholds. This paper presents a novel model suitability matrix that embeds application-specific needs and contingencies at local level on a...

A Spatially Enhanced Data-Driven Multimodel to Improve Semiseasonal Groundwater Forecasts in the High Plains Aquifer, USA

The aim of this paper is to improve semiseasonal forecast of groundwater availability in response to climate variables, surface water availability, groundwater level variations, and human water management using a two-step data-driven modeling approach. First, we implement an ensemble of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for the 300 wells...

Data mining, knowledge discovery and data-driven modelling

The project was aimed at exploring the possibilities of a new paradigm in modelling - data-driven modelling, often referred as "data mining". Several application areas were considered: sedimentation problems in the Port of Rotterdam, automatic soil classification on the basis of cone penetration tests, prediction of water levels in the ocean,...