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Estimating the amount of pollutants in streams and rivers is important but difficult due to infrequent sampling in many areas. Traditional methods often struggle with the complex interactions within watersheds, but this study introduces an innovative solution called XGBest. This machine learning tool uses a wide range of data, including land cover and watershed characteristics, to predict daily levels of Total Nitrogen, Total Phosphorus, and Total Suspended Solids across large regions. The authors tested XGBest in three different areas in the eastern United States, using data from 499 monitoring sites. Compared to traditional tools from the U.S. Geological Survey, XGBest provided more accurate predictions and offered valuable insights into how nutrient and sediment levels change over time and space. By highlighting the importance of factors like land cover and seasonal changes, XGBest proves to be a powerful tool that improves the understanding of water quality and aids in better environmental management.
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XGBest provided more accurate predictions and offered valuable insights into how nutrient and sediment levels change over time and space.
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This page is a summary of: Enhancing prediction and inference of daily in-stream nutrient and sediment concentrations using an extreme gradient boosting based water quality estimation tool - XGBest, The Science of The Total Environment, February 2025, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178517.
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