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<p>The quality of groundwater in the source area of pollution depends on many factors, including the weather and hydrogeological conditions within the given area. Anassessment of water quality can be carried out based on data obtained from sensors placed in boreholes. This research examined the influence of air and water temperature, groundwater table position and precipitation on the value of electrical conductivity in groundwater in a selected piezometer belonging to the monitoring network of the Quaternary aquifer in the area of a waste landfill site in Tychy-Urbanowice in southern Poland. The influence of individual factors was checked by using twenty neural network architectures of a Multilayer Perceptron Model (MLP). Each of these indicated factors were selected as input variables. Ultimately, three neural networks were selected, which were characterized by the smallest validation and test errors and showed the highest learning quality. The significance of individual variables for the effectiveness of the model was checked using a global sensitivity analysis. Three selected MLP models contained seven to nine neurons in the hidden layer and used a linear or exponential function as the hidden and output activation. The maximum test quality was 0.8369, while the smallest test error was 0.0011. The results of the sensitivity analysis highlighted the important role of water temperature and water table position on the conductivity value. The obtained goodness of fit results of the models to the input data allowed us to conclude that the MLP was applicable to such forecasts and can be extended by the analysis of further factors.</p>
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The quality of groundwater in the source area of pollution depends on many factors, including the weather and hydrogeological conditions within the given area. Anassessment of water quality can be carried out based on data obtained from sensors placed in boreholes. This research examined the influence of air and water temperature, groundwater table position and precipitation on the value of electrical conductivity in groundwater in a selected piezometer belonging to the monitoring network of the Quaternary aquifer in the area of a waste landfill site in Tychy-Urbanowice in southern Poland. The influence of individual factors was checked by using twenty neural network architectures of a Multilayer Perceptron Model (MLP). Each of these indicated factors were selected as input variables. Ultimately, three neural networks were selected, which were characterized by the smallest validation and test errors and showed the highest learning quality. The significance of individual variables for the effectiveness of the model was checked using a global sensitivity analysis. Three selected MLP models contained seven to nine neurons in the hidden layer and used a linear or exponential function as the hidden and output activation. The maximum test quality was 0.8369, while the smallest test error was 0.0011. The results of the sensitivity analysis highlighted the important role of water temperature and water table position on the conductivity value. The obtained goodness of fit results of the models to the input data allowed us to conclude that the MLP was applicable to such forecasts and can be extended by the analysis of further factors.

The impact of weather conditions on the quality of groundwater in the area of a municipal waste landfill

University of Tabriz, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies

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The quality of groundwater in the source area of pollution depends on many factors, including the weather and hydrogeological conditions within the given area....

The impact of weather conditions on the quality of groundwater in the area of a municipal waste landfill

Published Online: Sep 20, 2023

Page range: 14 - 21

Received: May 17, 2023

Accepted: Aug 09, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/environ-2023-0013

Keywords
hydrogeology, landfill, artificial neural networks, MLP, Tychy, Poland

© 2023 Dominika Dąbrowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The impact of weather conditions on the quality of groundwater in the area of a municipal waste landfill

Published Online: Sep 20, 2023

Page range: 14 - 21

Received: May 17, 2023

Accepted: Aug 09, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/environ-2023-0013

Keywordshydrogeology, landfill, artificial neural networks, MLP, Tychy, Poland

© 2023 Dominika Dąbrowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
hydrogeology, landfill, artificial neural networks, MLP, Tychy, Poland