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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2025-1224</article-id>
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<article-title>How to deal w___ missing input data</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gauch</surname>
<given-names>Martin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4587-898X</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kratzert</surname>
<given-names>Frederik</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8897-7689</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Klotz</surname>
<given-names>Daniel</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-6798</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nearing</surname>
<given-names>Grey</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cohen</surname>
<given-names>Deborah</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gilon</surname>
<given-names>Oren</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Google Research</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Linz, Austria</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>07</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>21</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Martin Gauch et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Deep learning hydrologic models have made their way from research to applications. More and more national hydrometeorological agencies, hydro power operators, and engineering consulting companies are building Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models for operational use cases. All of these efforts come across similar sets of challenges&amp;mdash;challenges that are different from those in controlled scientific studies. In this paper, we tackle one of these issues: how to deal with missing input data? Operational systems depend on the real-time availability of various data products&amp;mdash;most notably, meteorological forcings. The more external dependencies a model has, however, the more likely it is to experience an outage in one of them. We introduce and compare three different solutions that can generate predictions even when some of the meteorological input data do not arrive in time, or not arrive at all.</p>
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