Performance of neural networks in forecasting daily precipitation using multiple sources

Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 163-170

  Weerasinghe, H D P ^a   Premaratne, H L ^a   Sonnadara, D U J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Neural networks; Rainfall forecasting; Sri lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957566769     PISSN: 13914588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4038/jnsfsr.v38i3.2305     Document Type: Article

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