Prediction of daily crop reference evapotranspiration (ET o) values through a least-squares support vector machine model

Hydrology Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 268-274

  Guo, Xianghong ^a   Sun, Xihuan ^a   Ma, Juanjuan ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Least square support vector; Reference crop evapotranspiration; Weather forecast prediction model

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODEL EFFICIENCY; PENMAN-MONTEITH; REAL-TIME PREDICTION; REFERENCE CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SUPPORT VECTOR; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEATHER FORECAST PREDICTION MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; CROPS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WATER SUPPLY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; PREDICTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79960824933     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2011.072     Document Type: Article

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