@misc{AyzelIzhitskiy2019, author = {Ayzel, Georgy and Izhitskiy, Alexander}, title = {Climate change impact assessment on freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {1071}, issn = {1866-8372}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-47279}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472794}, pages = {21}, year = {2019}, abstract = {During the last few decades, the rapid separation of the Small Aral Sea from the isolated basin has changed its hydrological and ecological conditions tremendously. In the present study, we developed and validated the hybrid model for the Syr Darya River basin based on a combination of state-of-the-art hydrological and machine learning models. Climate change impact on freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea for the projection period 2007-2099 has been quantified based on the developed hybrid model and bias corrected and downscaled meteorological projections simulated by four General Circulation Models (GCM) for each of three Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios (RCP). The developed hybrid model reliably simulates freshwater inflow for the historical period with a Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency of 0.72 and a Kling-Gupta efficiency of 0.77. Results of the climate change impact assessment showed that the freshwater inflow projections produced by different GCMs are misleading by providing contradictory results for the projection period. However, we identified that the relative runoff changes are expected to be more pronounced in the case of more aggressive RCP scenarios. The simulated projections of freshwater inflow provide a basis for further assessment of climate change impacts on hydrological and ecological conditions of the Small Aral Sea in the 21st Century.}, language = {en} } @article{AyzelIzhitskiy2019, author = {Ayzel, Georgy and Izhitskiy, Alexander}, title = {Climate Change Impact Assessment on Freshwater Inflow into the Small Aral Sea}, series = {Water}, volume = {11}, journal = {Water}, number = {11}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2073-4441}, doi = {10.3390/w11112377}, pages = {19}, year = {2019}, abstract = {During the last few decades, the rapid separation of the Small Aral Sea from the isolated basin has changed its hydrological and ecological conditions tremendously. In the present study, we developed and validated the hybrid model for the Syr Darya River basin based on a combination of state-of-the-art hydrological and machine learning models. Climate change impact on freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea for the projection period 2007-2099 has been quantified based on the developed hybrid model and bias corrected and downscaled meteorological projections simulated by four General Circulation Models (GCM) for each of three Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios (RCP). The developed hybrid model reliably simulates freshwater inflow for the historical period with a Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency of 0.72 and a Kling-Gupta efficiency of 0.77. Results of the climate change impact assessment showed that the freshwater inflow projections produced by different GCMs are misleading by providing contradictory results for the projection period. However, we identified that the relative runoff changes are expected to be more pronounced in the case of more aggressive RCP scenarios. The simulated projections of freshwater inflow provide a basis for further assessment of climate change impacts on hydrological and ecological conditions of the Small Aral Sea in the 21st Century.}, language = {en} } @misc{AyzelIzhitskiy2018, author = {Ayzel, Georgy and Izhitskiy, Alexander}, title = {Coupling physically based and data-driven models for assessing freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea}, series = {Innovative Water Resources Management in a Changing Environment - Understanding and Balancing Interactions between Humankind and Nature}, volume = {379}, journal = {Innovative Water Resources Management in a Changing Environment - Understanding and Balancing Interactions between Humankind and Nature}, editor = {Xu, Z Peng}, publisher = {Copernicus}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, issn = {2199-899X}, doi = {10.5194/piahs-379-151-2018}, pages = {151 -- 158}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The Aral Sea desiccation and related changes in hydroclimatic conditions on a regional level is a hot topic for past decades. The key problem of scientific research projects devoted to an investigation of modern Aral Sea basin hydrological regime is its discontinuous nature - the only limited amount of papers takes into account the complex runoff formation system entirely. Addressing this challenge we have developed a continuous prediction system for assessing freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea based on coupling stack of hydrological and data-driven models. Results show a good prediction skill and approve the possibility to develop a valuable water assessment tool which utilizes the power of classical physically based and modern machine learning models both for territories with complex water management system and strong water-related data scarcity. The source code and data of the proposed system is available on a Github page (https://github.com/SMASHIproject/IWRM2018).}, language = {en} } @misc{AyzelIzhitskiy2018, author = {Ayzel, Georgy and Izhitskiy, Alexander}, title = {Coupling physically based and data-driven models for assessing freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {703}, issn = {1866-8372}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42787}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-427873}, pages = {151 -- 158}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The Aral Sea desiccation and related changes in hydroclimatic conditions on a regional level is a hot topic for past decades. The key problem of scientific research projects devoted to an investigation of modern Aral Sea basin hydrological regime is its discontinuous nature - the only limited amount of papers takes into account the complex runoff formation system entirely. Addressing this challenge we have developed a continuous prediction system for assessing freshwater inflow into the Small Aral Sea based on coupling stack of hydrological and data-driven models. Results show a good prediction skill and approve the possibility to develop a valuable water assessment tool which utilizes the power of classical physically based and modern machine learning models both for territories with complex water management system and strong water-related data scarcity. The source code and data of the proposed system is available on a Github page (https://github.com/SMASHIproject/IWRM2018).}, language = {en} }