Modeling rainfall-runoff process using soft computing techniques

Authors:
Ozgur Kisi;Jalal Shiri;Mustafa Tombul
Affiliations:
Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, Canik Basari University, Samsun, Turkey;Water Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran;Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Venue:
Computers & Geosciences
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Rainfall-runoff process was modeled for a small catchment in Turkey, using 4 years (1987-1991) of measurements of independent variables of rainfall and runoff values. The models used in the study were Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Gene Expression Programming (GEP) which are Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches. The applied models were trained and tested using various combinations of the independent variables. The goodness of fit for the model was evaluated in terms of the coefficient of determination (R^2), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), coefficient of efficiency (CE) and scatter index (SI). A comparison was also made between these models and traditional Multi Linear Regression (MLR) model. The study provides evidence that GEP (with RMSE=17.82l/s, MAE=6.61l/s, CE=0.72 and R^2=0.978) is capable of modeling rainfall-runoff process and is a viable alternative to other applied artificial intelligence and MLR time-series methods.