Daily river water temperature forecast model with a k-nearest neighbour approach

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1302-1310

  St Hilaire, André ^a,b   Ouarda, Taha B M J ^a   Bargaoui, Zoubeida ^c   Daigle, Anik ^a,b   Bilodeau, Laurent ^d  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^d HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forecasting; k nearest neighbour model; River; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC LIFE; BEST MODEL; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; LONG TIME SERIES; MODEL CONFIGURATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; NONLINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; RIVER WATER; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONALITY; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER TEMPERATURES; WEIGHT COMBINATION;

FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER WATER; SALMONID; SEASONALITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CANADA; MOISIE RIVER; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84859639480     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8216     Document Type: Article

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