Improving reliability of river flow forecasting using neural networks, wavelets and self-organising maps

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 486-502

  Tiwari, Mukesh K ^a   Song, Ki Young ^b   Chatterjee, Chandranath ^a   Gupta, Madan M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Cluster analysis; Decomposition; Forecasting; Mahanadi river basin; River flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876400204     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2012.130     Document Type: Article

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