Forecasting of monthly river flow with autoregressive modeling and data-driven techniques
Neural Computing and Applications, vol.25, no.1, pp.179-188, 2014 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 25 Issue: 1
- Publication Date: 2014
- Doi Number: 10.1007/s00521-013-1469-9
- Journal Name: Neural Computing and Applications
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.179-188
- Keywords: Autoregressive modeling, Data-driven techniques, Ki{dotless}zi{dotless}li{dotless}rmak River, River flow
- Isparta University of Applied Sciences Affiliated: No
Abstract
This study was conducted by using autoregressive (AR) modeling and data-driven techniques which include gene expression programming (GEP), radial basis function network and feed-forward neural networks, and adaptive neural-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) techniques to forecast monthly mean flow for Ki{dotless}zi{dotless}li{dotless}rmak River in Turkey. The lagged monthly river flow measurements from 1955 to 1995 were taken into consideration for development of the models. The correlation coefficient and root-mean-square error performance criteria were used for evaluating the accuracy of the developed models. When the results of developed models were compared with flow measurements using these criteria, it was shown that the AR(2) model gave the best performance among all developed models and the GEP and ANFIS models had good performance in data-driven techniques. © 2013 Springer-Verlag London.