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| author | Yang, Wencong Ji, Haoyu Lonzarich, Leo Song, Yalan Shen, Chaopeng |
| author_facet | Yang, Wencong Ji, Haoyu Lonzarich, Leo Song, Yalan Shen, Chaopeng |
| contents | Hourly predictions are critical for issuing flood warnings as the flood peaks on the hourly scale can be distinctly higher than the corresponding daily ones. Currently a popular hourly data-driven prediction scheme is multi-time-scale long short-term memory (MTS-LSTM), yet such models face challenges in probabilistic forecasts or integrating observations when available. Diffusion artificial intelligence (AI) models represent a promising method to predict high-resolution information, e.g., hourly streamflow. Here we develop a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (h-Diffusion) for hourly streamflow prediction that conditions on either observed or simulated daily discharge from hydrologic models to generate hourly hydrographs. The model is benchmarked on the CAMELS hourly dataset against record-holding MTS-LSTM and multi-frequency LSTM (MF-LSTM) baselines. Results show that h-Diffusion outperforms baselines in terms of general performance and extreme metrics. Furthermore, the h-Diffusion model can utilize the inpainting technique and recent observations to accomplish data assimilation that largely improves flood forecasting performance. These advances can greatly reduce flood forecasting uncertainty and provide a unified probabilistic framework for downscaling, prediction, and data assimilation at the hourly scale, representing risks where daily models cannot. |
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| spellingShingle | Diffusion-Based Probabilistic Modeling for Hourly Streamflow Prediction and Assimilation Yang, Wencong Ji, Haoyu Lonzarich, Leo Song, Yalan Shen, Chaopeng Geophysics Hourly predictions are critical for issuing flood warnings as the flood peaks on the hourly scale can be distinctly higher than the corresponding daily ones. Currently a popular hourly data-driven prediction scheme is multi-time-scale long short-term memory (MTS-LSTM), yet such models face challenges in probabilistic forecasts or integrating observations when available. Diffusion artificial intelligence (AI) models represent a promising method to predict high-resolution information, e.g., hourly streamflow. Here we develop a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (h-Diffusion) for hourly streamflow prediction that conditions on either observed or simulated daily discharge from hydrologic models to generate hourly hydrographs. The model is benchmarked on the CAMELS hourly dataset against record-holding MTS-LSTM and multi-frequency LSTM (MF-LSTM) baselines. Results show that h-Diffusion outperforms baselines in terms of general performance and extreme metrics. Furthermore, the h-Diffusion model can utilize the inpainting technique and recent observations to accomplish data assimilation that largely improves flood forecasting performance. These advances can greatly reduce flood forecasting uncertainty and provide a unified probabilistic framework for downscaling, prediction, and data assimilation at the hourly scale, representing risks where daily models cannot. |
| title | Diffusion-Based Probabilistic Modeling for Hourly Streamflow Prediction and Assimilation |
| topic | Geophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08488 |