An exploration of artificial neural network rainfall-runoff forecasting combined with wavelet decomposition
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Abstract
This study compares the one-day-ahead stream flow forecasting performance of multiple-layer artificial neurons and a neuro-wavelet hybrid system at two sites. Morlet power spectra are used to identify the period-scale structure of the available rainfall and runoff time series. The time series are wavelet decomposed into three sub-series depicting the rainfall-runoff processes: short, intermediate, and long wavelet periods. Then, multiple-layer artificial neurons are trained for each wavelet sub-series. Results show that the short wavelet periods are responsible for most of the final neuro-wavelet hybrid forecasting error. Short period fluctuations are thus the key to any further improvements in artificial neural network (ANN) rainfall-runoff forecasting models. The final performance of the neuro-wavelet hybrid forecasting system and of the classic forecasting multiple-layer artificial neuron system is very similar. The slight advantage in performance of the neuro-wavelet system may be attributed to a better usage of the evapotranspiration time series. Key words: surface-water hydrology, rainfall-runoff, artificial neural networks, wavelet decomposition.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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