Modeling daily pan evaporation using artificial neural networks
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53550/Keywords:
Artificial neural networks, Back propagation algorithm, Coefficient of determination, Evaporation, Index of agreement, Modeling, Multiple linear regression, Pan evaporationAbstract
The investigation was carried out to develop and test the daily pan evaporation prediction models using various weather parameters as input variables with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and validated with the independent subset of data for five different locations in India. The measured variables included daily observations of maximum and minimum temperature, maximum and minimum relative humidity, wind speed, sunshine hours, rainfall and pan evaporation. In the General Model development and evaluation of model has been done for the five locations viz. NRCC, Nagpur (M.S.), JNKVV, Jabalpur (M.P.), PDKV, Akola (M.S.), ICRISAT, Hyderabad (A.P.) andMPUAT, Udaipur (Raj.). The daily data of pan evaporation and other inputs for two years was considered for model development and subsequent 1-2 years data for validation.Weather data consisting of 3305 daily records from 2002 to 2006 were used to develop the GM models of daily pan evaporation. Additional weather of Nagpur station, which included 2139 daily records from 1996 - 2004, served as an independent evaluation data set for the performance of the models. The model plan strategy with all inputs has shown better performance than the reduced number of inputs. The GeneralANN Models (GM) of daily pan evaporation with all available variables as inputs was the most accurate model showing R 0.84 and root mean square error - 1.44 mm for the model development data set. TheGMevaluation with Nagpur model development (NMD) data shown lowest RMSE (1.961 mm), MAE (0.038 mm) and MARE (2.30%) and highest r (0.848),R (0.719) and d (0.919) withANNGM M-1with all input variables.
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