A hybrid wavelet neural network model with mutual information and particle swarm optimization for forecasting monthly rainfall

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 527, Issue , 2015, Pages 88-100

  He, Xinguang ^a   Guan, Huade ^a,b,c   Qin, Jianxin ^a  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Monthly rainfall; Mutual information; Particle swarm optimization; Wavelet neural network

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ERROR STATISTICS; FORECASTING; GAGES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; INVERSE TRANSFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; MAXIMAL OVERLAP DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; MONTHLY RAINFALLS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; WAVELET NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; WAVELET NEURAL NETWORKS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FORECASTING METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINGAUGE; TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84928955803     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.04.047     Document Type: Article

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