Wavelet Regression Model as an Alternative to Neural Networks for River Stage Forecasting

Ozgur Kisi ()

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2011, vol. 25, issue 2, 579-600

Abstract: River stage forecasting is an important issue in water resources management and real-time prediction of extreme floods. The present study investigates the performance of the wavelet regression (WR) technique in daily river stage forecasting. The WR model was improved combining two methods, discrete wavelet transform and a linear regression model. Two different WR models were developed using the stage sub-time series, and these were compared with each other. The data from two stations on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia were used. The root mean square errors (RMSE), mean absolute errors (MAE) and correlation coefficient (R) statistics were used for evaluating the accuracy of the WR models. The accuracy of the WR models was then compared with those of the artificial neural networks (ANN) models. Based on a comparison of these results, the WR models were found to perform better than the ANN models. For the upstream and downstream stations, it was found that the WR models with upstream readings of with RMSE = 0.070, MAE = 0.027, R = 0.937 and with downstream readings of RMSE = 0.048, MAE = 0.024, R = 0.969 in the validation stage performed better in forecasting daily river stages than the best accurate ANN models with upstream readings of RMSE = 0.168, MAE = 0.052, R = 0.802 and with downstream readings of RMSE = 0.115, MAE = 0.051, R = 0.807, respectively. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

Keywords: River stage; Discrete wavelet transform; Linear regression; Neural networks; Forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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