Daily maximum water temperature predictions in the Delaware River Basin (DRB) can inform decision makers who can use cold-water reservoir releases to maintain thermal habitat for sensitive fish species. This data release contains the forcings and outputs of 7-day ahead maximum water temperature forecasting models that makes predictions at 70 river reaches in the upper DRB. The modeling approach includes process-guided deep learning and data assimilation (Zwart et al., 2023). The model is driven by weather forecasts and observed reservoir releases and produces maximum water temperature forecasts for the issue day (day 0) and 7 days into the future (days 1-7). In combination with data provided in Oliver et al. (2022), this release contains all data used to train and validate the water temperature forecast models. This includes a process-based model pre-trainer, forecasted gridded weather data, reservoir releases, and water temperature data. Additionally, this release contains predictions from five models: a long-short term memory network (LSTM), a recurrent graph convolution network (RGCN), LSTM with data assimilation, a RGCN with data assimilation, and a persistence model. The release contains a tidy version of the model predictions with paired observations for easier reuse.
The data are organized into 4 child folders: 1) waterbody information, 2) model driver data, 3) model configurations, 4) model predictions, 5) model code.
This research was funded by the USGS.
Daily maximum water temperature predictions in the Delaware River Basin (DRB) can inform decision makers who can use cold-water reservoir releases to maintain thermal habitat for sensitive fish species. This data release contains the forcings and outputs of 7-day ahead maximum water temperature forecasting models that makes predictions at 70 river reaches in the upper DRB. The modeling approach includes process-guided deep learning and data assimilation (Zwart et al., 2023). The model is driven by weather forecasts and observed reservoir releases and produces maximum water temperature forecasts for the issue day (day 0) and 7 days into the future (days 1-7). In combination with data provided in Oliver et al. (2022), this release contains all data used to train and validate the water temperature forecast models. This includes a process-based model pre-trainer, forecasted gridded weather data, reservoir releases, and water temperature data. Additionally, this release contains predictions from five models: a long-short term memory network (LSTM), a recurrent graph convolution network (RGCN), LSTM with data assimilation, a RGCN with data assimilation, and a persistence model. The release contains a tidy version of the model predictions with paired observations for easier reuse.
The data are organized into 4 child folders: 1) waterbody information, 2) model driver data, 3) model configurations, 4) model predictions, 5) model code.
This research was funded by the USGS.
Several models were used to improve water temperature prediction in the Delaware River Basin.
PRMS-SNTemp was used to predict daily temperatures at 456 stream reaches in the Delaware River Basin. Daily stream temperature predictions for inflow and outflow reaches for Cannonsville and Pepacton reservoirs were pulled aside into a separate csv to be used as inputs to the General Lake Model (GLM). Reservoir outflow predictions and in-reservoir temperature predictions were generated with calibrated models built using GLM v3.1. We calculated a decay rate based on the modeled reservoir outflow temperatures and observed downstream river temperature to estimate the decay of the reservoir influence on stream temperature as a function of distance downstream of a reservoir. These decay rates from Pepacton and Cannonsville were used to weight the predictions from GLM and PRMS-SNTemp on the East and West Branch of the Delaware River, respectively, to represent the mix of stream and reservoir processes that affect temperature dynamics. These weighted values were then used to pre-train the deep learning models that were used to forecast temperature. More details on these methods can be found in Zwart and others 2021.
Code that generated these results can be found in Zwart and others 2021 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5164910).