Annual precipitation forecast for west, southwest, and south provinces of Iran using artificial neural networks

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 175-189

  Azadi, Samira ^a   Sepaskhah, Ali Reza ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTUMN; BACK PROPAGATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

IRAN;

EID: 84862247445     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0575-9     Document Type: Article

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