El Niño southern-oscillation prediction using southern oscillation index and Niño3 as onset indicators: Application of artificial neural networks

Mahad S. Baawain, Mohamed H. Nour, Ahmed G. El-Din, Mohamed Gamal El-Din*

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ملخص

El Niño southern-oscillation (ENSO) is known to be the strongest climatic variation on seasonal to inter-annual time scales. It causes severe droughts, floods, fires, and hurricanes leading to economical disasters. This study explores the use of relatively simple inputs in developing artificial neural network (ANN) models for predicting the onset of ENSO by forecasting some of its indicators. Two indicators, southern oscillation index (SOI) and Niño3, were used one at a time to model the ENSO occurrence using monthly averaged data. Both models performed well in forecasting and predicting ENSO occurrence up to 12 months in advance. Correlation coefficient values of more than 0.8 and 0.9 (one month lead time), and above 0.7 and 0.8 (12 month lead time) were obtained for SOI and Niño3, respectively. Both models apply the feed forward multilayer perceptron network trained with error back-propagation algorithm. The final models were compared with each other and found to be highly consistent with 75% agreement in their forecasting ability.

اللغة الأصليةEnglish
الصفحات (من إلى)113-121
عدد الصفحات9
دوريةJournal of Environmental Engineering and Science
مستوى الصوت4
رقم الإصدار2
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرPublished - مارس 2005
منشور خارجيًانعم

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