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5 Empirical Analysis
Recently, rainfall forecast is the main issue for climatological division as it is directly
linked to the financial system and life of people. It is a reason for ecological disasters
like floods and famine which are faced by people across the world every year. The
precision of rainfall forecasting has good importance for such countries as Pakistan,
India, Australia, and Canada whose financial system is mostly reliant on agriculture.
In this research, analysis is done on some previous models which calculates Root
Mean Square Error (RMSE) in rainfall prediction, as shown in Table 1. Because of
the dynamic nature of the environment, Statistical techniques fail to deliver good
accuracy for rainfall forecasting. Recent statistical techniques must perform well in
predict of rainfall in terms of accuracy. Therefore, this research proposed machine
learning-based statistical tools that predict rainfall accurately with low RMSE.
6 Discussion
As per the above discussion, in yearly rainfall data, there is no simple method for
determination of the rainfall parameters such as wind speed, humidity, soil temper-
ature, etc. Too few or too many input parameters can affect either the learning or
prediction capability of the network. Users cannot use the same model over a long
period because parameters are varying from day to day, month to month, or year to
year. Therefore, new parameters cannot be fitted into the developed model. Different
types of NN modeling for yearly, monthly, and weekly rainfall data are described as
follows. In yearly rainfall prediction, average rainfall data is used as input to ANN.
Therefore, ANN can easily predict the approximate peak value of yearly rainfall
data.
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7 Conclusion
This paper discussed various ML approaches for rainfall forecasting, and issues
requiring attention while applying these approaches for rainfall prediction and
other forecasting techniques such as statistical and numerical methods to get better
results. In this study, several machine learning (ML) methods, including Multiple
Linear Regression, Integrated technique (Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA)—Least-
Squares Support Vector Regression (LSSVR), SSA—Least Square Random Forest
(LSRF)), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Deep ESN technique (Echo state
Network), Random Forest (RF), and Support Vector Machines (SVM) are discussed
with RMSE but they don’t show better performance in rainfall forecasting. The
proposed model of this study may show state of the art performance for rainfall
forecasting which is very essential for such countries whose economy is depend on
agriculture sector.
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