Radial basis function neural networks for reliably forecasting rainfall

Journal of Water and Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-138

  El Shafie, Amr H ^a   El Shafie, A ^b   Almukhtar, A ^b   Taha, Mohd R ^b   El Mazoghi, Hasan G ^a   Shehata, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENGHAZI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexandria Egypt; Artificial neural network; Radial basis function; Rainfall forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864077196     PISSN: 20402244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2012.017     Document Type: Article

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