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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-2025-3368</article-id>
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<article-title>An Integrated Deep Learning Framework Enables Rapid Spatiotemporal Morphodynamic Predictions Toward Long-Term Simulations</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fathi</surname>
<given-names>Mohamed M.</given-names>
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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>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Zihan</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fernandes</surname>
<given-names>Anjali M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hren</surname>
<given-names>Michael T.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2866-8892</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Terry, Jr.</surname>
<given-names>Dennis O.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3667-3752</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nataraj</surname>
<given-names>C.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Smith</surname>
<given-names>Virginia</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Civil Engineering, Florida Gulf Coast University, United States</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Egypt</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Villanova Center for Analytics of Dynamic Systems and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, United States</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Denison University, United States</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Connecticut, United States</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, Temple University, United States</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University, United States</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>24</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>22</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Mohamed M. Fathi 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>Physics-based morphodynamic modeling is essential for advancing river management science and understanding Earth&apos;s geomorphological evolution processes. However, their computational demands and long processing times hinder long-term applications. This paper introduces and tests a robust Deep Learning (DL) framework that opens the door to overcoming these challenges through integrating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with long short-term memory algorithms (LSTM). This advancement facilitates rapid and continuous spatiotemporal predictions of hydrodynamic parameters and morphodynamic responses of flood events. Hydrodynamic predictions showed strong performance across the testing dataset, with mean RMSEs of 0.15 m and 0.04 m/s for water depth and flow velocity, respectively. Bed change predictions also demonstrated promising results, with normalized RMSE of 27 % and R2 of 0.93. This novel approach generates predictions 4700 times faster than traditional physics-based computational models, representing a paradigm shift in long-term river evolution simulations and pioneering new frontiers in fluvial morphodynamic modeling.</p>
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<funding-source>National Science Foundation</funding-source>
<award-id>1844180</award-id>
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