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A Transdisciplinary Review of Deep Learning Research and Its Relevance for Water Resources Scientists

Water resources research, 2018-11, Vol.54 (11), p.8558-8593 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018. The Authors. ;2018. American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved. ;ISSN: 0043-1397 ;EISSN: 1944-7973 ;DOI: 10.1029/2018WR022643

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  • Title:
    A Transdisciplinary Review of Deep Learning Research and Its Relevance for Water Resources Scientists
  • Author: Shen, Chaopeng
  • Subjects: AI neuroscience ; artificial intelligence ; Artificial neural networks ; BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ; Budding ; Correlation analysis ; Data ; data mining ; Deep learning ; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ; environmental sciences & ecology ; Feature extraction ; Hydrologic data ; Hydrologic models ; Hydrologists ; Hydrology ; Industry ; Information retrieval ; marine & freshwater biology ; Nervous system ; Neural networks ; Reviews ; Scaling ; Scientists ; transformative ; Water resources
  • Is Part Of: Water resources research, 2018-11, Vol.54 (11), p.8558-8593
  • Description: Deep learning (DL), a new generation of artificial neural network research, has transformed industries, daily lives, and various scientific disciplines in recent years. DL represents significant progress in the ability of neural networks to automatically engineer problem‐relevant features and capture highly complex data distributions. I argue that DL can help address several major new and old challenges facing research in water sciences such as interdisciplinarity, data discoverability, hydrologic scaling, equifinality, and needs for parameter regionalization. This review paper is intended to provide water resources scientists and hydrologists in particular with a simple technical overview, transdisciplinary progress update, and a source of inspiration about the relevance of DL to water. The review reveals that various physical and geoscientific disciplines have utilized DL to address data challenges, improve efficiency, and gain scientific insights. DL is especially suited for information extraction from image‐like data and sequential data. Techniques and experiences presented in other disciplines are of high relevance to water research. Meanwhile, less noticed is that DL may also serve as a scientific exploratory tool. A new area termed AI neuroscience, where scientists interpret the decision process of deep networks and derive insights, has been born. This budding subdiscipline has demonstrated methods including correlation‐based analysis, inversion of network‐extracted features, reduced‐order approximations by interpretable models, and attribution of network decisions to inputs. Moreover, DL can also use data to condition neurons that mimic problem‐specific fundamental organizing units, thus revealing emergent behaviors of these units. Vast opportunities exist for DL to propel advances in water sciences. Key Points Deep learning (DL) is transforming many scientific disciplines, but its adoption in hydrology is gradual DL can help tackle interdisciplinarity, data deluge, unrecognized linkages, and long‐standing challenges such as scaling and equifinality The new field of AI neuroscience opens up many opportunities for scientists to use DL as an exploratory tool for scientific advancement
  • Publisher: Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0043-1397
    EISSN: 1944-7973
    DOI: 10.1029/2018WR022643
  • Source: Wiley Blackwell AGU Digital Archive
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