Real-time multi-step-ahead water level forecasting by recurrent neural networks for urban flood control

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 517, Issue , 2014, Pages 836-846

  Chang, Fi John ^a   Chen, Pin An ^a   Lu, Ying Ray ^a   Huang, Eric ^b   Chang, Kai Yao ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Deparement of Mechanical Engineering   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks (ANNs); Flood forecast; Floodwater storage pond (FSP); Gamma test; Nonlinear autoregressive network with exogenous inputs (NARX); Urban flood control

Indexed keywords

FLOOD FORECAST; FLOODWATER STORAGE POND (FSP); GAMMA TEST; NONLINEAR AUTOREGRESSIVE NETWORK WITH EXOGENOUS INPUTS; URBAN FLOOD CONTROL;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; URBAN AREA; WATER LEVEL;

TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 84904421004     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.06.013     Document Type: Article

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