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Modelling Seasonality and Trends In Daily Rainfall Data

 Peter M. Williams
  
 

Abstract:
This paper presents a new approach to the problem of modelling daily rainfall using using neural networks. We first model the conditional distributions of rainfall amounts, in such a way that the model itself determines the order of the process, and the time-dependent shape and scale of the conditional distributions. After integrating over particular weather patterns, we are able to extract seasonal variations and long-term trends.

 
 


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