Table 2 Performance comparison with closely related water quality forecasting models.

From: Time series forecasting of chlorophyll-a concentrations in the Chesapeake Bay

Study

Method(s)

Time Window

Location

RMSE (mg/m3)

Eze et al.20

EEMD-LSTM

6–24 h

Scottish salmon farm (marine coast)

0.0356 (6 h), 0.0417 (24 h)

Lin et al.24

WA-LSTM, WA-BPNN

2 weeks

Neuse River Estuary, USA (estuarine)

1.27–12.05 (WA-LSTM), 1.14–8.45 (WA-BPNN) across 10 sites

Barzegar et al.23

LSTM, CNN-LSTM

15 min

Small Prespa Lake, Greece

(freshwater)

0.614 (LSTM), 0.579 (CNN-LSTM)

Yussof et al.18

LSTM, CNN

8 days

West Coast of Sabah, Malaysia (marine coast)

3402.142 (LSTM), 4361.724 (CNN)

Zheng et al.22

LSTM, EFDC-LSTM

1–3 h

BeiYun River, China (freshwater)

0.94 (LSTM), 1.86 (EFDC-LSTM)

Cen et al.19

LSTM

5 days

East China Sea (marine coast)

0.0223–4.6475 across 4 regions

Gupta et al. (our study)

LSTM

1 week

Chesapeake Bay (estuarine)

0.121–0.199 across 3 regions