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A Machine‐Learning‐Based Model For Water Quality In Coastal Waters, Taking Dissolved Oxygen And Hypoxia In Chesapeake Bay As An Example, Xin Yu, Jian Shen, Jiabi Du Aug 2020

A Machine‐Learning‐Based Model For Water Quality In Coastal Waters, Taking Dissolved Oxygen And Hypoxia In Chesapeake Bay As An Example, Xin Yu, Jian Shen, Jiabi Du

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Hypoxia is a big concern in coastal waters as it affects ecosystem health, fishery yield, and marine water resources. Accurately modeling coastal hypoxia is still very challenging even with the most advanced numerical models. A data‐driven model for coastal water quality is proposed in this study and is applied to predict the temporal‐spatial variations of dissolved oxygen (DO) and hypoxic condition in Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States with mean summer hypoxic zone extending about 150 km along its main axis. The proposed model has three major components including empirical orthogonal functions analysis, automatic selection of forcing …