Pub Date : 2025-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106837
Mehdi Jamei , Gurjit S. Randhawa , Mumtaz Ali , Masoud Karbasi , Ismail Olumegbon , Saad Javed Cheema , Travis J. Esau , Qamar U. Zaman , Aitazaz A. Farooque
Accurate Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) forecasting is crucial for safeguarding public health and informing policy decisions in coastal urban regions of Maritime Canada. This study introduces a graph-enhanced deep ensemble model that integrates Robust Empirical Mode Decomposition (REMD), Deep Ensemble Random Vector Functional Link (DeepERVFL), graph-based feature selection, and Borda Count multi-criteria decision making for multi-weekly AQHI forecasting. Forecast uncertainty is quantified using bootstrap resampling to ensure confidence in the results. Benchmarking against Recursive LSTM and Histogram-Based Gradient Boosting Ensemble (HBGBE) models shows the superior performance of the REMD-DeepERVFL framework, with BORDA scores of 0.940 (T+1) and 1.06 (T+3) in Halifax, 0.797 (T+3) in Charlottetown, and 0.931 (T+3) in St. John's. The framework supports air-quality early warning systems, public health communication, and climate-health monitoring, offering timely and reliable information. This hybrid approach provides a robust, scalable, and uncertainty-aware solution for regional AQHI forecasting in Atlantic Canada.
{"title":"A reliable deep ensemble hybrid model for urban air quality health index forecasting in maritime Canada","authors":"Mehdi Jamei , Gurjit S. Randhawa , Mumtaz Ali , Masoud Karbasi , Ismail Olumegbon , Saad Javed Cheema , Travis J. Esau , Qamar U. Zaman , Aitazaz A. Farooque","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106837","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106837","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) forecasting is crucial for safeguarding public health and informing policy decisions in coastal urban regions of Maritime Canada. This study introduces a graph-enhanced deep ensemble model that integrates Robust Empirical Mode Decomposition (REMD), Deep Ensemble Random Vector Functional Link (DeepERVFL), graph-based feature selection, and Borda Count multi-criteria decision making for multi-weekly AQHI forecasting. Forecast uncertainty is quantified using bootstrap resampling to ensure confidence in the results. Benchmarking against Recursive LSTM and Histogram-Based Gradient Boosting Ensemble (HBGBE) models shows the superior performance of the REMD-DeepERVFL framework, with BORDA scores of 0.940 (T+1) and 1.06 (T+3) in Halifax, 0.797 (T+3) in Charlottetown, and 0.931 (T+3) in St. John's. The framework supports air-quality early warning systems, public health communication, and climate-health monitoring, offering timely and reliable information. This hybrid approach provides a robust, scalable, and uncertainty-aware solution for regional AQHI forecasting in Atlantic Canada.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 106837"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145823143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-24DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106847
Tolga Barış Terzi
Drought is an escalating environmental hazard with profound societal and ecological impacts, intensified by climate change. Effective monitoring and probabilistic assessment require integrated tools capable of capturing both univariate and multivariate characteristics, including the interdependent behavior of multiple hydroclimatic variables. This study introduces PyDRGHT, an open-source Python package for comprehensive drought analysis. PyDRGHT provides a unified framework for computing standardized univariate and multivariate drought indices, identifying drought characteristics, and conducting univariate and copula-based bivariate frequency analyses to enable transparent and reproducible probabilistic assessments. PyDRGHT's utility is demonstrated using long-term precipitation and streamflow records from the Seyhan River Basin, Türkiye (1965–2011), illustrating robust drought detection and characterization. By offering a flexible and robust platform within the Python ecosystem, PyDRGHT advances drought monitoring, risk assessment, and hydroclimatic research.
{"title":"PyDRGHT: A comprehensive python package for drought analysis","authors":"Tolga Barış Terzi","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106847","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106847","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drought is an escalating environmental hazard with profound societal and ecological impacts, intensified by climate change. Effective monitoring and probabilistic assessment require integrated tools capable of capturing both univariate and multivariate characteristics, including the interdependent behavior of multiple hydroclimatic variables. This study introduces PyDRGHT, an open-source Python package for comprehensive drought analysis. PyDRGHT provides a unified framework for computing standardized univariate and multivariate drought indices, identifying drought characteristics, and conducting univariate and copula-based bivariate frequency analyses to enable transparent and reproducible probabilistic assessments. PyDRGHT's utility is demonstrated using long-term precipitation and streamflow records from the Seyhan River Basin, Türkiye (1965–2011), illustrating robust drought detection and characterization. By offering a flexible and robust platform within the Python ecosystem, PyDRGHT advances drought monitoring, risk assessment, and hydroclimatic research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 106847"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145823150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The narrative visualization of geographic textual information significantly facilitates information dissemination and enhances public understanding. However, current visualization approaches suffer from inaccurate text parsing, inefficient visualization construction processes, and unintuitive visual outputs. To address these issues, this paper proposes a 3D narrative visualization method that integrates semantic information and knowledge with virtual geographic scenes. The method includes the construction of a geographic narrative knowledge graph, the design of a multi-level spatiotemporal narrative visualization model, and a collaborative narrative visualization strategy using large language models and knowledge graphs. Experimental analyses were conducted using texts describing natural disasters and social events in Luding County. Results showed effectiveness scores consistently above 3.5, cognitive accuracy improvements of up to 16 %, and cognitive processing time reduced by approximately half. These findings verify that the proposed method effectively transforms textual geographic information into narrative visualizations, significantly improving public comprehension and cognitive efficiency, thus demonstrating its practical potential for broader applications in geographic information communication.
{"title":"Three-dimensional narrative visualization in virtual geographic scenes for enhancing textual information driven by knowledge and semantics","authors":"Yukun Guo , Jun Zhu , Zhihao Guo , Jianlin Wu , Jinbin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106844","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106844","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The narrative visualization of geographic textual information significantly facilitates information dissemination and enhances public understanding. However, current visualization approaches suffer from inaccurate text parsing, inefficient visualization construction processes, and unintuitive visual outputs. To address these issues, this paper proposes a 3D narrative visualization method that integrates semantic information and knowledge with virtual geographic scenes. The method includes the construction of a geographic narrative knowledge graph, the design of a multi-level spatiotemporal narrative visualization model, and a collaborative narrative visualization strategy using large language models and knowledge graphs. Experimental analyses were conducted using texts describing natural disasters and social events in Luding County. Results showed effectiveness scores consistently above 3.5, cognitive accuracy improvements of up to 16 %, and cognitive processing time reduced by approximately half. These findings verify that the proposed method effectively transforms textual geographic information into narrative visualizations, significantly improving public comprehension and cognitive efficiency, thus demonstrating its practical potential for broader applications in geographic information communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 106844"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145823152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106846
Amy McNally , Lucas Sterzinger , Ian Carroll
This overview introduces concepts, challenges, and solutions for analysis of Earth System Model data in cloud computing environments. We highlight how NASA's Earth Science Data System is migrating data to the cloud, but existing data formats are not yet optimized for cloud performance. Specifically, there is significant performance degradation in the on-cloud analysis due to fragmented metadata and small data chunk size. Using data from two NASA Land Data Assimilation Systems we present a case study comparing on-premises vs. commercial cloud workflows. The case study demonstrates that re-chunking archival data may be necessary, as well as consolidating metadata and generating metadata sidecar files, for enhanced cloud performance. We also recommend resources and tools for users interested in cloud-based analysis and shifts in practices for data producers. These changes will allow for successful cloud migration of NASA Earthdata and improve data discoverability and usability for critical Earth science research and applications.
{"title":"Producing Earth science data for impact: Improved commercial cloud usability of archive model data","authors":"Amy McNally , Lucas Sterzinger , Ian Carroll","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106846","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106846","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This overview introduces concepts, challenges, and solutions for analysis of Earth System Model data in cloud computing environments. We highlight how NASA's Earth Science Data System is migrating data to the cloud, but existing data formats are not yet optimized for cloud performance. Specifically, there is significant performance degradation in the on-cloud analysis due to fragmented metadata and small data chunk size. Using data from two NASA Land Data Assimilation Systems we present a case study comparing on-premises vs. commercial cloud workflows. The case study demonstrates that re-chunking archival data may be necessary, as well as consolidating metadata and generating metadata sidecar files, for enhanced cloud performance. We also recommend resources and tools for users interested in cloud-based analysis and shifts in practices for data producers. These changes will allow for successful cloud migration of NASA Earthdata and improve data discoverability and usability for critical Earth science research and applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 106846"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145823151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The magnitude and timing of flood peaks are strongly influenced by the non-linear relationship between flow velocity and discharge. Traditional routing models struggle to account for the variation in flow velocity, particularly with time, due to computational constraints. This study proposes a novel Iterative Routing Model (IRM) that updates flow velocity as a function of streamflow magnitude. The IRM was applied to seven gauging stations in the Godavari River Basin, India. It outperformed two other models used in this study in simulating peak discharge and timing, with the lowest average absolute deviations of 29.98 % and 0.2 days, respectively. The IRM achieved the highest median NSE (0.78) and KGE (0.79) values across all stations. Moreover, the calibrated Manning's roughness from the proposed model appears more realistic compared to that given by other models. Overall, our findings highlight the potential of the proposed model to improve flood peak predictions in large river basins.
{"title":"Taming the non-linearity: An iterative conceptual routing model for improving flood peak prediction","authors":"Ekant Sarkar , Akshay Kadu , S.L. Kesav Unnithan , Basudev Biswal","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106843","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106843","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The magnitude and timing of flood peaks are strongly influenced by the non-linear relationship between flow velocity and discharge. Traditional routing models struggle to account for the variation in flow velocity, particularly with time, due to computational constraints. This study proposes a novel Iterative Routing Model (IRM) that updates flow velocity as a function of streamflow magnitude. The IRM was applied to seven gauging stations in the Godavari River Basin, India. It outperformed two other models used in this study in simulating peak discharge and timing, with the lowest average absolute deviations of 29.98 % and 0.2 days, respectively. The IRM achieved the highest median NSE (0.78) and KGE (0.79) values across all stations. Moreover, the calibrated Manning's roughness from the proposed model appears more realistic compared to that given by other models. Overall, our findings highlight the potential of the proposed model to improve flood peak predictions in large river basins.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 106843"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145823153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106840
Jishu Guo, Yimin Huang, Yun Zhang
Surface water quality underpins ecosystem stability, regional security, and public health, yet capturing spatio-temporal heterogeneity from historical monitoring remains challenging. We propose a Spatio-Temporal Aware Neural Network (SANN) that couples high-order spatial structure learning with explicit temporal modeling to represent nonlinear interactions among 11 physicochemical variables across China’s 12 major river basins. Using 15,855 samples from the National Surface Water Monitoring Network, SANN is benchmarked against ten traditional, deep, and graph-based models, attaining a mean accuracy of 91.87%, an F1-score of 91.15%, and a precision of 91.32%, outperforming the state of the art water quality prediction model. Feature-importance analysis reveals distinct, time-varying regional drivers: total phosphorus dominates the eight eastern–southern basins, whereas the permanganate index prevails in the four western–northern basins. The framework clarifies spatio-temporal heterogeneity in water-quality controls and provides actionable guidance for basin-specific, time-aware pollution mitigation and ecological restoration. The source code is available at: https://github.com/FengLiuii/SANN.
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Flooding, intensified by climate change, necessitates advanced prediction models. Traditional hydrodynamic simulation, HEC-RAS 1D/2D is computationally intensive, limiting real-time flood forecasting. This study proposes an integrated deep learning framework to emulate HEC-RAS 1D/2D, significantly reducing computational demands. The framework comprises an LSTM for river water level prediction and a CNN for flood inundation mapping. To ensure physical consistency, the CNN learns the relationship between river water levels and flood inundation by mimicking overflow results of 1D/2D models. Training uses observed hydrological data and flood inundation maps from 1D/2D simulations. Results indicate the LSTM achieving good accuracy to predict water level. The CNN effectively translates water level predictions into flood depth maps, demonstrating close agreement with HEC-RAS outputs. Overall, the AI-based framework significantly accelerates flood simulations while maintaining high accuracy, making it a promising tool for real-time flood prediction and large-scale flood risk assessment.
{"title":"Enhancing flood forecasting with deep learning: A scalable alternative to traditional hydrodynamic models","authors":"Weeraphat Duangkhwan , Chaiwat Ekkawatpanit , Chanchai Petpongpan , Duangrudee Kositgittiwong , So Kazama , Yusuke Hiraga , Chai Jaturapitakkul","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106841","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106841","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Flooding, intensified by climate change, necessitates advanced prediction models. Traditional hydrodynamic simulation, HEC-RAS 1D/2D is computationally intensive, limiting real-time flood forecasting. This study proposes an integrated deep learning framework to emulate HEC-RAS 1D/2D, significantly reducing computational demands. The framework comprises an LSTM for river water level prediction and a CNN for flood inundation mapping. To ensure physical consistency, the CNN learns the relationship between river water levels and flood inundation by mimicking overflow results of 1D/2D models. Training uses observed hydrological data and flood inundation maps from 1D/2D simulations. Results indicate the LSTM achieving good accuracy to predict water level. The CNN effectively translates water level predictions into flood depth maps, demonstrating close agreement with HEC-RAS outputs. Overall, the AI-based framework significantly accelerates flood simulations while maintaining high accuracy, making it a promising tool for real-time flood prediction and large-scale flood risk assessment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 106841"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145785084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106842
Martin Masten , Simon Seelig , Matevž Vremec , Magdalena Seelig , Gerfried Winkler
Simulating snow cover and glacier ice melt is essential for understanding hydrological processes in high-alpine catchments. We present a new Python extension to the Rainfall-Runoff Modeling Playground (RRMPG) that incorporates two key alpine-specific processes: snow cover hysteresis and glacier ice melt. Snow hysteresis captures the asymmetric evolution of snow-covered area between accumulation and melt periods, while glacier melt modeling is crucial in glacierized catchments due to its strong influence on water balance. The model is tested in two catchments in the Ötztal Alps and shows high accuracy in simulating runoff and snow cover dynamics. A multi-objective calibration approach using observed runoff and MODIS snow cover data improves model robustness. Designed for modularity and interoperability, the framework integrates easily with tools for calibration, sensitivity analysis, and data visualization. This open-source extension advances hydrological modeling in complex alpine environments by offering enhanced process representation, flexibility, and compatibility with Python-based workflows.
{"title":"An enhanced python framework for hydrological modeling in alpine catchments: Snow hysteresis and glacier ice melt","authors":"Martin Masten , Simon Seelig , Matevž Vremec , Magdalena Seelig , Gerfried Winkler","doi":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106842","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106842","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Simulating snow cover and glacier ice melt is essential for understanding hydrological processes in high-alpine catchments. We present a new Python extension to the Rainfall-Runoff Modeling Playground (RRMPG) that incorporates two key alpine-specific processes: snow cover hysteresis and glacier ice melt. Snow hysteresis captures the asymmetric evolution of snow-covered area between accumulation and melt periods, while glacier melt modeling is crucial in glacierized catchments due to its strong influence on water balance. The model is tested in two catchments in the Ötztal Alps and shows high accuracy in simulating runoff and snow cover dynamics. A multi-objective calibration approach using observed runoff and MODIS snow cover data improves model robustness. Designed for modularity and interoperability, the framework integrates easily with tools for calibration, sensitivity analysis, and data visualization. This open-source extension advances hydrological modeling in complex alpine environments by offering enhanced process representation, flexibility, and compatibility with Python-based workflows.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":310,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Modelling & Software","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 106842"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145785095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106833
Carlos Erazo Ramirez , Ibrahim Demir
This work presents a web-based, voice-enabled, no-code platform for AI-assisted hydrological analysis. The system allows users to interact through natural language—via both text and speech—to retrieve data, utilize hydrological functions, and visualize spatial and analytical outputs. Core components include a conversational AI assistant utilizing Large Language Models, a modular analysis engine based on HydroSuite, and direct integration with hydrological data from federal agencies using HydroShare and other data and web services. Structured intent parsing, persistent session state, and dynamic map-layer control support multi-turn interactions and reproducible workflows. A case study over the Mississippi River Delta demonstrates how the platform enables guided exploration, layered data integration, and low-latency execution with minimal technical overhead. The platform lowers barriers for research, education, and decision-making in hydrology by combining AI reasoning with a transparent, accessible user interface. By enabling natural language interaction, data integration, and reproducible, multi-turn task processing, this system lays the foundation for automated hydrological research and operational workflows.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106839
Saba Al Hosni , Scott J. McGrane , Gioele Figus , Cecilia Tortajada
Water-extended Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models are a class of economy-wide models widely used as tools to address research and policy questions for various water-related topics. This systematic review analyses 100 applications of water-CGE models, categorising them into key areas based on their structure and aims, including agricultural, industrial, combination of agricultural and industrial, energy, and combination of energy and agriculture, to examine the methodological approaches of incorporating water into CGE models, and to explore the various themes of the applications. Findings suggest that improvements in incorporating water in CGE models require improvements in the quality and detail of water data, explicitly specifying water as a factor of production, constructing models at smaller spatial scales, accounting for water seasonality, and improving transparency of calibration and validation methods. Addressing these challenges will enhance the representation of water in CGE models that can provide critical insights in addressing water-economy interconnections.
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