Comparison of Regression tree, artificial neural network and Hargrives-Samani in estimation of reference evapotranspiration in semi region

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 MSc., Former Graduate of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering Department, Aburaihan Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering Department, Aburaihan Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate three models of artificial neural networks (ANN), regression trees (M5) and Hargrives-Samani (HG) in estimation of reference evapotranspiration. For this purpose was used climate information of Sistan va Baloochestan, Kerman, Yazd and Khorasan Jonoobi from 1998 to 2008. In addition to effect of wind (U) on evapotranspiration (ET0), estimation of ET0 was done based on wind change in tree groups including U<2.48 m/s (U1), 2.48<U<3.67 m/s (U2) and U>3.67 m/s (U3). The results showed that optimum result of each tree methods was in U1 group. The amount of RMSE and R2 in ANN were 1.41 mm/day and 0.84 respectively, in MS were 1.46 mm/day and 0.83 and in HG were 2.02 mm/day and 0.69. These results showed that both ANN and MS methods are better than HG model. Besides, the run of MS to ANN is easy.

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