Coupling a firefly algorithm with support vector regression to predict evaporation in northern Iran

Evaporation accounts for varying shares of water balance under different climatic conditions, and its correct prediction poses a significant challenge before water resources management in watersheds. Given the complex and nonlinear behavior of the evaporation component, and according to the fact tha...

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Main Authors: Roozbeh Moazenzadeh, Babak Mohammadi, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Kwok-wing Chau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2018.1482476