Runoff modeling in Kolar river basin using hybrid approach of wavelet with artificial neural network

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, the Kolar River watershed, Madhya Pradesh is taken as the study area. This study area is located in Narmada River in Central India. The data set consists of monthly rainfall of three meteorological stations, Ichhawar, Brijesh Nagar, and Birpur rainfall stations from 2000 to 2018, runoff data at Birpur and temperature data of Sehore district. In this paper, radial basis function neural network models have been studied for generation of rainfall–runoff modeling along with wavelet input and without wavelet input to the RBF neural network. A total of 15 models were developed in this experiment based on various combinations of inputs and spread constant of RBF model. The evaluation criteria for the best models selected are based on R2, AARE, and MSE. The best predicting model among the networks is model 8, which has input of R(t-1), R(t-2), R(t-3), R(t-4), and Q(t-1). For the RBFNN model, the maximum value of R2 is 0.9567 and the lowest values of AARE and MSE are observed. Similarly, for the WRBFNN model, the maximum value of R2 is 0.9889 and the lowest values of AARE and MSE are observed. WRBF performs better than RBF with any data processing techniques which shows the proposed model possesses better predictive capability.