El Nino southern Oscillation (ENSO) and IndianOcean Dipole (IOD) have enormous effects on the precipitations around the world. Australian rainfall is also affected by these key modes of complex climate variables. Many studies have tried to establish the relationships of these large-scale climate indices among the rainfalls of different parts of Australia, particularly Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Unlike the other regions, no clear relationship can be found between each individual largescale climate mode and Victorian rainfall. Past studies considering southeast Australian rainfall predictability could achieve a maximum of 30% correlation. This study looks into the lagged-time relationships of these modes on Victorian spring rainfall. On the other hand, few attempts have been made to establish the combined effect of these indices on rainfall in order to develop a better understanding and forecasting system. Thus, the aim of this research was to investigate the combined lagged relationship of ENSO and IOD with Victorian spring rainfall using multiple regression as a linear method compared to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) as a nonlinear method . This study found that predicting spring rainfall using combined lagged ENSO-DMI indices with ANN can achieve 96.96% correlation as compared to multiple regression with only 66.15% correlation. This method can be used for other parts of the world where a relationship exists between rainfall and large scale climate modes which could not be established by linear methods.
Rainfall forecasting plays an important role in water resources management and also for controlling the unusual events related to the rainfall. This study aims to forecast monthly rainfall from antecedent monthly rainfall, temperature and climate indices using a hybrid wavelet neural network (HWNN) model. The discrete wavelet transform is used incorporation with a conventional ANN model. The skilfulness of the proposed model is compared with the observed rainfall and the ANN model. The results show that the HWNN model provides a good fit with the observed rainfall data particularly in facing the extreme rainfall. The decomposed sub-series obtained by wavelet transform can extract invaluable information which is enormously useful for future rainfall prediction. The results confirm that the hybrid model considerably improves the neural network ability to predict future rainfall.
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