Improving prediction accuracy of river discharge time series using a Wavelet-NAR artificial neural network

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 974-991

  Wei, Shouke ^a,b   Zuo, Depeng ^c   Song, Jinxi ^d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Apmosian SciTech International Inc   (Canada)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian regularization; NAR network; River discharge; Wavelet transformation; Weihe River

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872401589     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2012.143     Document Type: Article

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