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| Title: | Statistical forecasting of met-ocean parameters in the Cochin estuarine system, southwest coast of India |
| Authors: | Srinivas, K.
Revichandran, C.
Kumar, P. K. Dinesh |
| Keywords: | Cochin estuarine system
met-ocean parameters
seasonal variation
statistical forecasting |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2003 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | Three different statistical forecasting techniques - autoregressive, sinusoidal and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) were used to forecast monthly values of meteorological and oceanographic (met-ocean) parameters viz. sea surface temperature (SST), air temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, rainfall, relative density and sea level, in the Cochin estuarine system. The EWMA technique (which yields forecast with a lead time of only one month) gave the lowest root mean square errors relative to the verifying observations. Atmospheric pressure could be forecast with less than 5 % of error while SST and air temperature with less than 10 % of error, by all the three techniques. 80% of the time, sea level could be forecast with less than 10 % error, by each of the three techniques. However, wind speed, relative density and rainfall could not be forecast by any of the three techniques with any acceptable degree of accuracy. |
| Page(s): | 285-293 |
| ISSN: | 0379-5136 |
| Source: | IJMS Vol.32(4) [December 2003]
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