Abstract:
The design, analysis and management of the water resources systems, involves modelling and prediction of the behavior of complex systems. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) can be used in a large variety of problems, e.g. mapping, dynamic process modelling, optimisation, image processing, data analysis, forecasting, simulation, function approximation etc. Due to the distributed nature of ANNs, destruction of a few nodes or presence of some inconsistent data does not adversely affect the performance of ANNs. An ANN model was applied to rainfall-runoff simulation of an Indian catchment. Hourly rainfall, discharge and potential evaporation data were used The results show acceptable match between the observed and computed discharges.
