Suitability of artificial neural network in daily flow forecasting

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2949-2957

  Solaimani, Karim ^a   Darvari, Zahra ^a  

^a University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources   (Iran)

Author keywords

Daily river flows; L M and CG algorithm; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM; BP (BACK PROPAGATION) ALGORITHM; FLOW ESTIMATION; FLOW FORECASTING; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; RIVER FLOW; RIVER FLOW FORECASTING; STREAM-FLOW EVENTS;

FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67149100967     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2008.2949.2957     Document Type: Article

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