Comparison of the Gen Expression Programming, Nonlinear Time Series and Artificial Neural Network in Estimating the River Daily Flow (Case Study: The Karun River)

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Article 6, Volume 28, Issue 6, January 2015, Pages 1172-1182   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jsw.v0i0.32553

Authors

R. Zamani^* ; F. Ahmadi; F. Radmanesh

Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

Abstract

Today, the daily flow forecasting of rivers is an important issue in hydrology and water resources and thus can be used the results of daily river flow modeling in water resources management, droughts and floods monitoring. In this study, due to the importance of this issue, using nonlinear time series models and artificial intelligence (Artificial Neural Network and Gen Expression Programming), the daily flow modeling has been at the time interval (1981-2012) in the Armand hydrometric station on the Karun River. Armand station upstream basin is one of the most basins in the North Karun basin and includes four sub basins (Vanak, Middle Karun, Beheshtabad and Kohrang).The results of this study shown that artificial intelligence models have superior than nonlinear time series in flow daily simulation in the Karun River. As well as, modeling and comparison of artificial intelligence models showed that the Gen Expression Programming have evaluation criteria better than artificial neural network.

Keywords

Modeling; Artificial Intelligence; Daily discharge; Karun River

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