Wavelet-ANN model for nutrient load predictions in rivers

  • Authors:
  • Raj Mohan Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Civil Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India

  • Venue:
  • SEMCCO'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Rise in nutrients concentrations have been a persistent problem in streams and rivers throughout the world. Estimates of nutrient fluxes are necessity as well as challenges for water quality management. The observation of nutrient loads (of nitrogen and/or phosphorous) from watershed into river or stream system is not straight forward but complex function of hydrology, geology, and land use of the region. There are statistical approaches to predict the nutrients loads in rivers. Development of models based on temporal observations may improve understanding the underlying hydrological processes complex phenomena of nutrient concentrations in river. Present work utilized temporal patterns extracted from temporal observations of monthly flow data and nitrogen loads using wavelet theory. These patterns are then utilized by an artificial neural network (ANN). The wavelet-ANN conjunction model is then able to predict the monthly nutrient load.