Meteorological time series forecasting based on MLP modelling using heterogeneous transfer functions. (21st January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Voyant, C; Nivet, M L; Paoli, C; Muselli, M; Notton, G
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 574(2015)
• Page Start: 012064
• Publication Date: 2015-01-21
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/574/1/012064
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper, we propose to study four meteorological and seasonal time series coupled with a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) modeling. We chose to combine two transfer functions for the nodes of the hidden layer, and to use a temporal indicator (time index as input) in order to take into account the seasonal aspect of the studied time series. The results of the prediction concern two years of measurements and the learning step, eight independent years. We show that this methodology can improve the accuracy of meteorological data estimation compared to a classical MLP modelling with a homogenous transfer function.