Abstract
This study provides a unique opportunity to analyze the issue of flow forecast based on the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) and artificial neural network (ANN) models. In last two decades, the ANNs have been extensively applied to various water resources system problems. In this study, the ANNs were applied to the daily flow of the Pracana basin in Portugal. The comparison of ANN models and a process-based model SWAT was established based on their prediction accuracy. The ANN model was found to be more successful than the SWAT in relation to better forecast of peak flow. Nevertheless the SWAT model results revealed a better value of mean squared error. The results of this study, in general, showed that ANNs can be powerful tools in daily flow forecasts.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 467-473 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Advances in Engineering Software |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2009 |
Funding
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of DPT Project No.: 90187 for this work. Moreover, we thank to Prof. Arthur J. Mariano (University of Miami) and Mr. Muhittin Tarhan (Istanbul Technical University) for fruitful comments on the manuscript.
Funders | Funder number |
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DPT | 90187 |
Keywords
- Artificial neural networks
- Flow
- Forecast
- Portugal
- SWAT