Evaluation of pan evaporation modeling with two different neural networks and weather station data Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Springer-Verlag Wien 2013. This study evaluates neural networks models for estimating daily pan evaporation for inland and coastal stations in Republic of Korea. A multilayer perceptron neural networks model (MLP-NNM) and a cascade correlation neural networks model (CCNNM) are developed for local implementation. Five-input models (MLP 5 and CCNNM 5) are generally found to be the best for local implementation. The optimal neural networks models, including MLP 4, MLP 5, CCNNM 4, and CCNNM 5, perform well for homogeneous (cross-stations 1 and 2) and nonhomogeneous (cross-stations 3 and 4) weather stations. Statistical results of CCNNM are better than those of MLP-NNM during the test period for homogeneous and nonhomogeneous weather stations except for MLP 4 being better in BUS-DAE and POH-DAE, and MLP 5 being better in POH-DAE. Applying the conventional models for the test period, it is found that neural networks models perform better than the conventional models for local, homogeneous, and nonhomogeneous weather stations.

published proceedings

  • THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

  • Kim, S., Singh, V. P., & Seo, Y.

citation count

  • 21

complete list of authors

  • Kim, Sungwon||Singh, Vijay P||Seo, Youngmin

publication date

  • July 2014