Rainfall intensity prediction by a spatial-temporal ensemble

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1721-1727

  Tan, Tuan Zea ^a   Lee, Gary Kee Khoon ^a   Liong, Shie Yui ^b   Lim, Tian Kuay ^c   Chu, Jiawei ^d   Hung, Terence ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DROUGHT; FORECASTING; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCES; CONTINUOUS TIMES; FLASH FLOODS; NOWCASTING; RAINFALL INTENSITIES; RAINING SEASONS; REGRESSION MODELS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; TEMPORAL INFORMATIONS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 56449091383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4634030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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