The pan-Arctic region has the largest number of lakes in the world,which is rather sensitive to changing climate.It is urgently needed to understand how these lakes were changing in the long term.However,there are few...The pan-Arctic region has the largest number of lakes in the world,which is rather sensitive to changing climate.It is urgently needed to understand how these lakes were changing in the long term.However,there are few lakes with long-term historical monitoring of water level,understanding the hydrologic changes of pan-Arctic lakes over the past century requires the data reconstruction by state-of-art techniques.This study used machine learning algorithms to reconstruct the water level of pan-Arctic lakes on a centennial scale.It further investigated their relationship with long-term hydrological and climatic variables.Comparison of the reconstructed results by four different machine learning models shows that the extreme gradient boosting tree(XGBoost) is better than other three models.Overall,the centennial-scale reconstruction using the XGBoost model performs best for most study lakes.Based on the reconstructed results,we can observe that water level changes of several North American lakes are correlated with potential evapotranspiration,followed by precipitation,while the Eurasian lakes are more strongly associated with temperature and wet day frequency.The water level dynamics of pan-Arctic lakes could be largely attributed to Arctic Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.This study is expected to advance our understanding of the pan-Arctic lake water level changes in the past century and to provide a feasible method for reconstructing the regional lake water level in the long term.展开更多
基金jointly funded by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.XDA23100102)the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos.2018YFD0900804,2018YFD1100101,and 2019YFA0607101)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.41971403,41801321,and 42101402)。
文摘The pan-Arctic region has the largest number of lakes in the world,which is rather sensitive to changing climate.It is urgently needed to understand how these lakes were changing in the long term.However,there are few lakes with long-term historical monitoring of water level,understanding the hydrologic changes of pan-Arctic lakes over the past century requires the data reconstruction by state-of-art techniques.This study used machine learning algorithms to reconstruct the water level of pan-Arctic lakes on a centennial scale.It further investigated their relationship with long-term hydrological and climatic variables.Comparison of the reconstructed results by four different machine learning models shows that the extreme gradient boosting tree(XGBoost) is better than other three models.Overall,the centennial-scale reconstruction using the XGBoost model performs best for most study lakes.Based on the reconstructed results,we can observe that water level changes of several North American lakes are correlated with potential evapotranspiration,followed by precipitation,while the Eurasian lakes are more strongly associated with temperature and wet day frequency.The water level dynamics of pan-Arctic lakes could be largely attributed to Arctic Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.This study is expected to advance our understanding of the pan-Arctic lake water level changes in the past century and to provide a feasible method for reconstructing the regional lake water level in the long term.
