<p>Streamflow predictions are a vital tool for detecting flood and drought events. Such predictions are even more critical to Sub-Saraharan African regions that are vulnerable to the increasing frequency and intensity of such events. These regions are sparsely gauged, with few available gauging stations that are often plagued with missing data due to various causes, such as harsh environmental conditions and constrained operational resources.&#160;</p> <p>This work presents a novel workflow for predicting streamflow in the presence of missing gauge observations. We leverage bias correction of the GEOGloWS ECMWF streamflow service (GESS) forecasts for missing data imputation and predict future streamflow using the state-of-the-art Temporal Fusion transformers at ten river gauging stations in the Benin Republic.</p> <p>We show by simulating missingness in a testing period that GESS forecasts have a significant bias that results in poor imputation performance over the ten Beninese stations. Our findings suggest that overall bias correction by Elastic Net and Gaussian Process regression achieves superior performance relative to traditional imputation by established methods such as Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbour, and GESS lookup. We also show that the Temporal Fusion Transformer yields high predictive skill and further provides explanations for predictions through the weights of its attention mechanism. The findings of this work provide a basis for integrating Global streamflow prediction model data and state-of-the-art machine learning models into operational early-warning decision-making systems (e.g., flood/ drought alerts) in resource-constrained countries vulnerable to drought and flooding due to extreme weather events.</p>
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