Drought Modelling Based on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network Algorithms: A Case Study in Queensland, Australia
Kavina Dayal, Ravinesh Deo and Armando A. Apan
List of Acronyms
ANN Artificial Neural Networks
AWAP Australian Water Availability Project
BFGS quasi-Newton Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno quasi-Newton
d Willmott’s Index of Agreement
E Nash-Sutcliffe Coefficient of Efficiency
LM Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm
Logsig Logarithmic sigmoid
MAE Mean Absolute Error
NRM Natural Resource Management
PE Prediction Error
PET Potential Evapotranspiration
Q1 First quartile (25th percentile)
Q2 Second quartile (50th percentile or median)
Q3 Third quartile (75th percentile)
R2 Coefficient of Determination
RMSE Root Mean Squared Error
SPEI Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index
Tansig Tangent sigmoid
Trainbfg Training BFGS quasi-Newton
Trainlm Training Levenberg-Marquardt
K. Dayal (&) • R. Deo
School of Agricultural Computational and Environmental Sciences,
International Centre of Applied Climate Sciences (ICACS),
University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, Australia e-mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
A.A. Apan
School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, Australia
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
W. Leal Filho (ed.), Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries,
Climate Change Management, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_11