River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks

The need for accurate river flow forecasting model has grown rapidly in the past decades for achieving better risk-based water resources planning due to issues like water demand increase or climate change. In this paper a hybrid Wavelet-Neural Networks (WNN) is developed to predict daily river flow....

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Main Authors: Badrzadeh, Honey, Sarukkalige, Priyantha Ranjan
Other Authors: Grantley Smith
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Engineers Australia 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34466
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Sarukkalige, Priyantha Ranjan
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description The need for accurate river flow forecasting model has grown rapidly in the past decades for achieving better risk-based water resources planning due to issues like water demand increase or climate change. In this paper a hybrid Wavelet-Neural Networks (WNN) is developed to predict daily river flow. WNN is one of the most reliable recent methods for hydrological time series predictions. 30 years of daily stream flow and rainfall data from Dingo road station on Harvey River, Western Australia are used in this study. Both rainfall and runoff time series are decomposed into multi-frequency time series by using the Harr and Daubechies wavelet No5 (db5), then the wavelet coefficients are imposed as input data to feed-forward back propagation ANN. The best structure of ANN is chosen by trial and error to reach best daily stream flow forecasting. Comparing the results with those of the single ANN model indicates that the performances of WNN are more effective than ANN in terms of selected performance criteria.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-344662017-01-30T13:43:39Z River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks Badrzadeh, Honey Sarukkalige, Priyantha Ranjan Grantley Smith time series river flow forecasting artificial neural network discrete wavelet transformation The need for accurate river flow forecasting model has grown rapidly in the past decades for achieving better risk-based water resources planning due to issues like water demand increase or climate change. In this paper a hybrid Wavelet-Neural Networks (WNN) is developed to predict daily river flow. WNN is one of the most reliable recent methods for hydrological time series predictions. 30 years of daily stream flow and rainfall data from Dingo road station on Harvey River, Western Australia are used in this study. Both rainfall and runoff time series are decomposed into multi-frequency time series by using the Harr and Daubechies wavelet No5 (db5), then the wavelet coefficients are imposed as input data to feed-forward back propagation ANN. The best structure of ANN is chosen by trial and error to reach best daily stream flow forecasting. Comparing the results with those of the single ANN model indicates that the performances of WNN are more effective than ANN in terms of selected performance criteria. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34466 Engineers Australia restricted
spellingShingle time series
river flow forecasting
artificial neural network
discrete wavelet transformation
Badrzadeh, Honey
Sarukkalige, Priyantha Ranjan
River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks
title River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks
title_full River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks
title_fullStr River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks
title_full_unstemmed River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks
title_short River flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks
title_sort river flow forecasting using an integrated approach of wavelet analysis and artificial neural networks
topic time series
river flow forecasting
artificial neural network
discrete wavelet transformation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34466