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Rainfall forecasting in arid regions using an ensemble of artificial neural networks

2021· article· en· W3168747617 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Physics Conference Series · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHydrological Forecasting Using AI
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAridArtificial neural networkWilcoxon signed-rank testWater resourcesCorrelation coefficientEnvironmental scienceHydrology (agriculture)MeteorologyStatisticsComputer scienceMathematicsArtificial intelligenceGeographyMann–Whitney U testEngineeringGeology

Abstract

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Abstract Water rainfall prediction is one of the most difficult tasks in hydrology because rainfall events are extremely random. This research presents a comparative analysis of different models that predict rainfall in an arid region. The forecasting models comprise the feed-forward, general regression, recurrent, cascade, and Elman neural networks. The performance of the aforementioned models is assessed using three evaluation metrics, namely the correlation coefficient, coefficient of efficiency, and Willmott’s index of agreement. Furthermore, the statistical significance of the neural network models is evaluated using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test. Finally, the correspondence of the neural network model results compared to the observations is examined using the Taylor diagram. The findings reveal that the general neural network exhibits the best performance compared to other models using the tropical rainfall measuring mission dataset at Suez city in Egypt. The Egyptian water municipality is intended to benefit from the proposed model in monthly rainfall forecasting in this arid region. The precise modeling of rainfall is vital for managing water resources such as food production, water allocation, and drought management.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.063
Threshold uncertainty score0.468

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Open science0.0000.000
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Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.102
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread0.174 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it