Monsoon rainfall forecasting in Sri Lanka using artificial neural networks

Author

Nagahamulla, Harshani R K ; Ratnayake, Uditha R. ; Ratnaweera, Asanga

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Wayamba Univ. of Sri Lanka, Kuliyapitiya, Sri Lanka

fYear

2011

Firstpage

305

Lastpage

309

Abstract

Rainfall is a complex process and forecasting rainfall is complicated because it involves a lot of parameters but precise rainfall forecasting is necessary for many human activities. Even though considerable research work has been done in rainfall prediction, comparatively fewer efforts have been made on Sri Lankan monsoon rainfall prediction using large scale climatic teleconnections. In this paper, results of a study in investigating the appropriateness of artificial neural networks in forecasting monsoon rainfall in Sri Lanka using large scale climate teleconnections is presented.

Keywords

geophysics computing; neural nets; weather forecasting; Sri Lanka; artificial neural networks; large scale climatic teleconnections; monsoon rainfall forecasting; rainfall prediction; Artificial neural networks; Forecasting; Ocean temperature; Predictive models; Rain; Artificial neural network; back propagation algorithm; large scale climatic teleconnections; rainfall forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kandy

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0032-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIINFS.2011.6038085

Filename

6038085