Application of Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Daily Pan Evaporation Using Available and Estimated Climatic Data in the Khozestan Province (South Western Iran)
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 137, Issue 7
Abstract
Estimation of evaporation, a major component of the hydrologic cycle, is required for a variety of purposes in water resources development and management. This paper investigates the abilities of genetic programming (GP) to improve the accuracy of daily evaporation estimation. In the first part of the study, different GP models, comprising various combinations of daily climatic variables, namely, air temperature, sunshine hours, wind speed, and relative humidity, were developed to evaluate the degree of the effect of each variable on daily pan evaporation. A dynamic modeling of evaporation was also performed, with the current climatic variables and one of the previous variables, to evaluate the effect of their time series on evaporation. In the second part of the study, the estimated solar radiation data were used as input vectors instead of recorded sunshine values. Statistics such as correlation coefficient (), root mean square error (RMSE), coefficient of residual mass (CRM) and scatter index (SI) were used to measure the performance of models. Tthe dynamic model approach was shown to give the best results with relatively fewer errors and higher correlations. To assess the ability of GP relative to the neuro-fuzzy (NF) and artificial neural networks (ANN), several NF and ANN models were developed by using the same data set. The obtained results showed the superiority of GP to the NF and ANN approaches. The Stephen-Stewart and Christiansen methods were also considered for comparison. The results indicated that the proposed GP model performed quite well in modeling evaporation processes from the available climatic data. The results also showed that the estimated solar radiation data can be applied successfully instead of the recorded sunshine data.
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Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the staff of the Khozestan Meteorology Organization (Iran) who were associated with data observation, processing, and management of organization.
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Volume 137 • Issue 7 • July 2011
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