Comparative Performance of Multiple Linear Regression and Artificial Neural Network Based Models in Estimation of Evaporation
Journal Title: Advances in Research - Year 2017, Vol 11, Issue 5
Abstract
Evaporation is an integral part of water cycle. The measurement of evaporation plays a significant role in water management planning, irrigation requirement and to know the water availability in storage system. Considering the complexity in estimation of evaporation by empirical formulas, this study was undertaken to develop regression and neural network based models for estimation of evaporation from climatic variables. The parameters viz. average temperature (T_(avg )), wind speed (W), average relative humidity (〖Rh〗_avg) and sunshine hours (S) were used as predictors and evaporation was considered as response variable. Mean squared error (MSE) and correlation coefficient (r) were used to judge the performance of developed models. The multiple linear regression (MLR) model exhibited MSE 1.12 and 0.92 whereas with artificial neural network (ANN) model, MSE was found to be 0.56 and 0.68 in training and testing phase, respectively. In training period, correlation coefficient was 0.92 for MLR model as compared to 0.96 with ANN model. The correlation coefficient in testing phase was found to be 0.95 and 0.97 for MLR and ANN model, respectively. The developed ANN model outperformed MLR model in estimation of evaporation from climatic variables.
Authors and Affiliations
Neeraj Kumar, Ganesh Upadhyay, Pankaj Kumar
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