Unifying monitoring and modelling of water concentration levels in surface waters
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| author | Sorensen, Peter B Nielsen, Anders Holm, Peter E Bjerg, Poul L Voutchkova, Denitza Thorling, Lærke Rasmussen, Dorte Estrup, Hans Damgaard, Christian F |
| author_facet | Sorensen, Peter B Nielsen, Anders Holm, Peter E Bjerg, Poul L Voutchkova, Denitza Thorling, Lærke Rasmussen, Dorte Estrup, Hans Damgaard, Christian F |
| contents | Accurate prediction of expected concentrations is essential for effective catchment management, requiring both extensive monitoring and advanced modeling techniques. However, due to limitations in the equation solving capacity, the integration of monitoring and modeling has been suffering suboptimal statistical approaches. This limitation results in models that can only partially leverage monitoring data, thus being an obstacle for realistic uncertainty assessments by overlooking critical correlations between both measurements and model parameters. This study presents a novel solution that integrates catchment monitoring and a unified hieratical statistical catchment modeling that employs a log-normal distribution for residuals within a left-censored likelihood function to address measurements below detection limits. This enables the estimation of concentrations within sub-catchments in conjunction with a source/fate sub-catchment model and monitoring data. This approach is possible due to a model builder R package denoted RTMB. The proposed approach introduces a statistical paradigm based on a hierarchical structure, capable of accommodating heterogeneous sampling across various sampling locations and the authors suggest that this also will encourage further refinement of other existing modeling platforms within the scientific community to improve synergy with monitoring programs. The application of the method is demonstrated through an analysis of nickel concentrations in Danish surface waters. |
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| spellingShingle | Unifying monitoring and modelling of water concentration levels in surface waters Sorensen, Peter B Nielsen, Anders Holm, Peter E Bjerg, Poul L Voutchkova, Denitza Thorling, Lærke Rasmussen, Dorte Estrup, Hans Damgaard, Christian F Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science 62p12 I.6 Accurate prediction of expected concentrations is essential for effective catchment management, requiring both extensive monitoring and advanced modeling techniques. However, due to limitations in the equation solving capacity, the integration of monitoring and modeling has been suffering suboptimal statistical approaches. This limitation results in models that can only partially leverage monitoring data, thus being an obstacle for realistic uncertainty assessments by overlooking critical correlations between both measurements and model parameters. This study presents a novel solution that integrates catchment monitoring and a unified hieratical statistical catchment modeling that employs a log-normal distribution for residuals within a left-censored likelihood function to address measurements below detection limits. This enables the estimation of concentrations within sub-catchments in conjunction with a source/fate sub-catchment model and monitoring data. This approach is possible due to a model builder R package denoted RTMB. The proposed approach introduces a statistical paradigm based on a hierarchical structure, capable of accommodating heterogeneous sampling across various sampling locations and the authors suggest that this also will encourage further refinement of other existing modeling platforms within the scientific community to improve synergy with monitoring programs. The application of the method is demonstrated through an analysis of nickel concentrations in Danish surface waters. |
| title | Unifying monitoring and modelling of water concentration levels in surface waters |
| topic | Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science 62p12 I.6 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10285 |