Affiliation:
1. a Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600119, India
2. b Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
Abstract
Abstract
The Penman–Monteith evapotranspiration (ET) model has superior predictive ability to other methods, but it is challenging to apply in several Indian stations, owing to the need for a large number of climatic variables. The study investigated an artificial neural network (ANN) model for calculating ET for various agro-climatic regions of India. Sensitivity analysis showed that the overall average changes in ET0 values for 25% change in the climatic variables were 18, 16, 14, 7, 5, and 4%, respectively, for Tmax, RHmean, Rn, wind speed, Tmin, and sunshine hours. The dominant climatic variables were identified from the principal component analysis (PCA) and ET0 was computed using an ANN with dominant climatic variables. The ANN architecture with backpropagation technique had one hidden layer and neurons ranging from 10 to 30 for all climatic variables and from 5 to 10 for PCA variables. The new ET models were statistically compared with Penman–Monteith ET estimate, and found reliable. PCA variables guaranteed an estimate of ET0 accounting for 98% of the variability. The average values of coefficient of determination, standard error of estimate, and percentage efficiency were observed as 0.96, 0.24, and 94%, respectively.
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Pollution,Water Science and Technology,Ecology,Civil and Structural Engineering,Environmental Engineering
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