Nonlinear model for drought forecasting based on a conjunction of wavelet transforms and neural networks

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 319-328

  Kim, Tae Woong ^a   Vald́es, Juan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Droughts; Forecasting; Mexico; Models; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CONJUNCTION MODEL; NONLINEAR MODEL;

DROUGHT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DROUGHT; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

MEXICO;

EID: 0344121593     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2003)8:6(319)     Document Type: Article

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