Optimized scenario for rainfall forecasting using genetic algorithm coupled with artificial neural network

Mohsen Nasseri

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.033

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Optimized scenario for rainfall forecasting using genetic algorithm coupled with artificial neural network

2008-10-01

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Mohsen Nasseri *

Mohammad Javad Abedini

DOI：10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.033

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Rainfall forecasting plays many important role in water resources studies such as river training works and design of flood warning systems. Recent advancement in artificial intelligence and in particular techniques aimed at converting input to output for highly non-linear, non-convex and dimensionalized processes such as rainfall field, provide an alternative approach for developing rainfall forecasting model. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), which perform a nonlinear mapping between inputs and outputs, are such a technique. Current literatures on artificial neural networks show that the selection of network architecture and its efficient training procedure are major obstacles for their daily usage. In this paper, feed-forward type networks will be developed to simulate the rainfall field and a so-called back propagation (BP) algorithm coupled with genetic algorithm (GA) will be used to train and optimize the networks. The techniquc will be implemented to forecast rainfall for a number of times using rainfall hyetograph of recording rain gauges in the Upper Parramatta catchment in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Results of the Study showed the structuring of ANN network with the input parameter selection, when coupled with GA, performed better compared to similar work of using ANN alone. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

rainfall forecasting

artificial neural networks

genetic algorithms

input determination

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