MODELLING REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION USING FEED FORWARD BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHM IN ARID REGIONS OF AFRICA

Modelling of the evapotranspiration process is central for efficient management of agricultural water resources in arid regions. Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) computation with the recommended Penman-Monteith (PM) equation is limited in Burkina Faso due to the numerous meteorological data requir...

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Published in:Irrigation and drainage Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 404 - 417
Main Authors: Wang, Yu-Min, Traore, Seydou, Kerh, Tienfuan, Leu, Jan-Mou
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.07.2011
Subjects:
action anticipatrice
air temperature
Algorithms
Arid regions
arid zones
Back propagation
Burkina Faso
climate models
données de température
equations
Evapotranspiration
feed forward backpropagation
meteorological data
Modelling
modélisation
neural networks
Relative humidity
régions arides
rétropopagation
temperature data
water management
wind speed
Burkina Faso
ISSN:1531-0353, 1531-0361, 1531-0361
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Summary:Modelling of the evapotranspiration process is central for efficient management of agricultural water resources in arid regions. Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) computation with the recommended Penman-Monteith (PM) equation is limited in Burkina Faso due to the numerous meteorological data required. Recently, to solve the climatic data unavailability problem, an alternative reference model (RMBF) has been developed for Burkina Faso. In a new approach, this study explores in three production regions, Dori, Bogande and Fada N'Gourma, the potential of using the feed forward backpropagation (BP) neural network algorithm for estimating ETo from temperature data. Furthermore, four temperature-based models including BP, RMBF, Hargreaves (HRG) and Blaney-Criddle (BCR) were employed and compared with the true PM. Based on the statistical evaluation, RMBF, HRG and BCR consistently overestimated the ETo and showed poor performance.Moreover, BP is superior to RMBF, HRG and BCR. Clearly, temperature-based BP is more reliable than the other alternative methods for ETo modelling in Burkina Faso. It is found that both wind velocity and relative humidity improve BP accuracy when integrated into the network input. Relative humidity does not show as strong a correlation to ETo as wind. Wind was found as the key variable of ETo and is highly recommended to be in the BP model for these arid regions of Africa under study. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ird.589
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Modélisation de l'évapotranspiration de référence dans les régions arides de l'Afrique en utilisant un algorithme de rétropropagation à action anticipatrice.
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ISSN:1531-0353
1531-0361
1531-0361
DOI:10.1002/ird.589