Monthly and seasonal drought forecasting using statistical neural networks

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 397-412

  Hosseini Moghari, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Araghinejad, Shahab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Drought; Forecasting; Generalized regression network; Gorganroud Basin; Multi layer perceptron network; Radial basis function network

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FORECASTING; FUNCTIONS; NETWORK LAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GENERALIZED REGRESSION; GENERALIZED REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORKS; GORGANROUD BASIN; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; STANDARD PRECIPITATION INDICES; STATISTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS;

RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

GORGANROUD BASIN; IRAN;

EID: 84931565528     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4047-x     Document Type: Article

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