Forecasting water levels at the Yangtze River with neural networks

Erdkunde

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-243

  Hartmann, Heike ^a   Becker, Stefan ^b   King, Lorenz ^a   Jiang, Tong ^c,d  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

China; Cross correlation analysis; Multiple linear regression analysis; Neural network analysis; Water level; Yangtze

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EVAPORATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 55949085810     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2008.03.04     Document Type: Article

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