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title = "Global-scale massive feature extraction from monthly hydroclimatic time series: Statistical characterizations, spatial patterns and hydrological similarity",
author = "Papacharalampous, Georgia and
Tyralis, Hristos and
Papalexiou, Simon Michael and
Langousis, Andreas and
Khatami, Sina and
Volpi, Elena and
Grimaldi, Salvatore",
journal = "Science of The Total Environment, Volume 767",
volume = "767",
year = "2021",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
url = "https://gwf-uwaterloo.github.io/gwf-publications/G21-31001",
doi = "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144612",
pages = "144612",
abstract = "Hydroclimatic time series analysis focuses on a few feature types (e.g., autocorrelations, trends, extremes), which describe a small portion of the entire information content of the observations. Aiming to exploit a larger part of the available information and, thus, to deliver more reliable results (e.g., in hydroclimatic time series clustering contexts), here we approach hydroclimatic time series analysis differently, i.e., by performing massive feature extraction. In this respect, we develop a big data framework for hydroclimatic variable behaviour characterization. This framework relies on approximately 60 diverse features and is completely automatic (in the sense that it does not depend on the hydroclimatic process at hand). We apply the new framework to characterize mean monthly temperature, total monthly precipitation and mean monthly river flow. The applications are conducted at the global scale by exploiting 40-year-long time series originating from over 13 000 stations. We extract interpretable knowledge on seasonality, trends, autocorrelation, long-range dependence and entropy, and on feature types that are met less frequently. We further compare the examined hydroclimatic variable types in terms of this knowledge and, identify patterns related to the spatial variability of the features. For this latter purpose, we also propose and exploit a hydroclimatic time series clustering methodology. This new methodology is based on Breiman's random forests. The descriptive and exploratory insights gained by the global-scale applications prove the usefulness of the adopted feature compilation in hydroclimatic contexts. Moreover, the spatially coherent patterns characterizing the clusters delivered by the new methodology build confidence in its future exploitation...",
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%0 Journal Article
%T Global-scale massive feature extraction from monthly hydroclimatic time series: Statistical characterizations, spatial patterns and hydrological similarity
%A Papacharalampous, Georgia
%A Tyralis, Hristos
%A Papalexiou, Simon Michael
%A Langousis, Andreas
%A Khatami, Sina
%A Volpi, Elena
%A Grimaldi, Salvatore
%J Science of The Total Environment, Volume 767
%D 2021
%V 767
%I Elsevier BV
%F Papacharalampous-2021-Global-scale
%X Hydroclimatic time series analysis focuses on a few feature types (e.g., autocorrelations, trends, extremes), which describe a small portion of the entire information content of the observations. Aiming to exploit a larger part of the available information and, thus, to deliver more reliable results (e.g., in hydroclimatic time series clustering contexts), here we approach hydroclimatic time series analysis differently, i.e., by performing massive feature extraction. In this respect, we develop a big data framework for hydroclimatic variable behaviour characterization. This framework relies on approximately 60 diverse features and is completely automatic (in the sense that it does not depend on the hydroclimatic process at hand). We apply the new framework to characterize mean monthly temperature, total monthly precipitation and mean monthly river flow. The applications are conducted at the global scale by exploiting 40-year-long time series originating from over 13 000 stations. We extract interpretable knowledge on seasonality, trends, autocorrelation, long-range dependence and entropy, and on feature types that are met less frequently. We further compare the examined hydroclimatic variable types in terms of this knowledge and, identify patterns related to the spatial variability of the features. For this latter purpose, we also propose and exploit a hydroclimatic time series clustering methodology. This new methodology is based on Breiman’s random forests. The descriptive and exploratory insights gained by the global-scale applications prove the usefulness of the adopted feature compilation in hydroclimatic contexts. Moreover, the spatially coherent patterns characterizing the clusters delivered by the new methodology build confidence in its future exploitation...
%R 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144612
%U https://gwf-uwaterloo.github.io/gwf-publications/G21-31001
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144612
%P 144612
Markdown (Informal)
[Global-scale massive feature extraction from monthly hydroclimatic time series: Statistical characterizations, spatial patterns and hydrological similarity](https://gwf-uwaterloo.github.io/gwf-publications/G21-31001) (Papacharalampous et al., GWF 2021)
ACL
- Georgia Papacharalampous, Hristos Tyralis, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Andreas Langousis, Sina Khatami, Elena Volpi, and Salvatore Grimaldi. 2021. Global-scale massive feature extraction from monthly hydroclimatic time series: Statistical characterizations, spatial patterns and hydrological similarity. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 767, 767:144612.
