A hybrid decision tree/ association rules approach for long-term precipitation forecasting

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Long-term forecasting of hydroclimatic variables such as maximum monthly precipitation (MMP) is very important in water resources management. The previous researches have shown that discovering association between the oceanic-atmospheric climate phenomena such as Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and hydroclimatic variables such as precipitation could provide important predictive information. In this paper, the application of two data mining techniques is offered to discover affiliation between MMP values of Urmia and Tabriz synoptic stations and SSTs of the Black, Mediterranean and Red Seas. Two major steps of the modeling in this study are the classification of SST data and selecting the most effective groups and extracting hidden predictive information involved in the data. Decision tree algorithms were used for classification and selecting the most effective groups and association rules were employed to extract the hidden predictive information from the large observed data. The results show a relative correlation between the Black, Mediterranean and Red Sea SSTs and MMP of Urmia and Tabriz synoptic stations so that the confidence between the MMP values and the SST of seas is higher than 60% forstations.

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Water and Irrigation Management
Volume 6, Issue 2
November 2017
Pages 331-346

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