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TEKNIK DERGI
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 11029-11050Publisher
TURKISH CHAMBER CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.18400/tekderg.605453
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Drought; SPEI; wavelet packet; genetic programming; stochastic modelling
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This study developed a new hybrid model WPGP for short-term meteorological drought forecast, which combines wavelet packet decomposition with genetic programming to improve predictive accuracy. The results showed that WPGP is a robust model, superior to other common predictive models such as AR1 and RF.
This study presents developing procedures and verification of a new hybrid model, namely wavelet packet-genetic programming (WPGP) for short-term meteorological drought forecast. To this end, the multi-temporal standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) has been used as the drought quantifying parameter at two meteorological stations at Ankara province, Turkey. The new WPGP model comprises two main steps. In the first step, the wavelet packet, which is a generalization of the well-known wavelet transform, is used to decompose the SPEI series into deterministic and stochastic sub-signals. Then, classic genetic programming (GP) is applied to formulate the deterministic sub-signal considering its effective lags. To characterize the stochastic component, different theoretical probability distribution functions were assessed, and the best one was selected to integrate with the GP-evolved function. The efficiency of the new model was cross-validated with the first order autoregressive (AR1), GP, and random forest (RF) models developed as the benchmarks in the present study. The results showed that the WPGP is a robust model, superior to AR1 and RF, and significantly increases the predictive accuracy of the standalone GP model.
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