NEURAL NETWORK PREDICTION OF MONTHLY PRECIPITATION: APPLICATION TO SUMMER FLOOD OCCURRENCE IN TWO REGIONS OF CENTRAL EUROPE

Abstract

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models were used to forecast precipitation. Three-layer back propagation ANNs were trained with actual monthly precipitation data from six Czech and four Hungarian meteorological stations for the period 1961-1998. The predicted amounts are the next month's precipitation. Both training and testing ANN results provided a good fit with the actual data and displayed high feasibility in predicting extreme precipitation.