Avaliação de modelos de inteligência artificial híbridos na estimativa de precipitações

Abstract

The hydrological analyzes carried out from rainfall in the Amazon are essential due to its importance in climate regulation, regional and global atmospheric circulation. However, in this region, there are limitations related to data series with short periods and many flaws, especially in the daily scale. Despite significant advances in science and technology, practical and accurate predictions have been a major concern due to their complexity. Therefore, several conceptual models, empirical or hybrid, have been tested to forecast rain with greater precision. Among empirical models, those that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) methods are potentially useful approaches to simulate the precipitation process. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), as AI models, are able to establish a relationship between historical inputs (rain, flow, etc.) and the desired outputs, through a non-linear function composed of several factors that are adjusted to the observed data, allowing your prediction. Thus, to improve the precipitation analysis, hybrid models were developed, involving Artificial Neural Network (ANN) of the type with Time Delay (TDNN), ELMAN network, Radial Base network (RBF) and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), coupled with Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet (MODWT). Six rainfall gauge station were adopted, which are located in different biomes of the region, and satellite data (CMORPH). Rainfall data were evaluated by seasonal periods (rainy and dry). The results obtained demonstrated that the MODWT-ANFIS model had the best capacity to simulate the daily precipitation of the evaluated rainfall gauge station, even for dry periods, which are known to be more difficult to be simulated in relation to the rainy periods. In this case, data entries lagged by 4 days and 5 days performed better, with Nash values close to 1.0 and root mean square errors below 0.001.