Suspended sediment concentration estimation by an adaptive neuro-fuzzy and neural network approaches using hydro-meteorological data


Cobaner M., Unal B., Kisi O.

JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, vol.367, pp.52-61, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 367
  • Publication Date: 2009
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.12.024
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.52-61
  • Yozgat Bozok University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Correct estimation of sediment volume carried by a river is very important for many water resources projects. Conventional sediment rating curves, however, are not able to provide sufficiently accurate results. In this paper, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy approach is proposed to estimate suspended sediment concentration on rivers. The daily rainfall, streamflow and suspended sediment concentration data from Mad River Catchment near Arcata, USA are used as a case study. In the first part of the study, various combinations of current daily rainfall, streamflow and past daily streamflow, suspended sediment data are used as inputs to the neuro-fuzzy computing technique so as to estimate current suspended sediment. In the second part of the study, the potential of neuro-fuzzy technique is compared with those of the three different artificial neural networks (ANN) techniques, namely, the generalized regression neural networks (GRNN), radial basis neural networks (RBNN) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and two different sediment rating curves (SRC). The comparison results reveal that the neuro-fuzzy models perform better than the other models in daily suspended sediment concentration estimation for the particular data sets used in this study. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.