Development of ANN Model for Wind Speed Prediction as a Support for Early Warning System

The impact of natural disasters increases every year with more casualties and damage to property and the environment. Therefore, it is important to prevent consequences by implementation of the early warning system (EWS) in order to announce the possibility of the harmful phenomena occurrence. In th...

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Published in:Complexity (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2017-01, Vol.2017 (2017), p.1-10
Main Authors: Marovic, Ivan, Susanj, Ivana, Ozanic, Nevenka
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Artificial neural networks
Casualties
Colleges & universities
Croatia
Damage prevention
Decision making
Decision support systems
Disasters
Early warning systems
Emergency communications systems
Emergency preparedness
Emergency procedures
Emergency warning programs
Hydrology
Impact damage
Infrastructure
International relations
Maintenance management
Management information systems
Mathematical models
Natural disasters
Neural networks
Property damage
Strategic management
Weather
Wind speed
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Summary:The impact of natural disasters increases every year with more casualties and damage to property and the environment. Therefore, it is important to prevent consequences by implementation of the early warning system (EWS) in order to announce the possibility of the harmful phenomena occurrence. In this paper, focus is placed on the implementation of the EWS on the micro location in order to announce possible harmful phenomena occurrence caused by wind. In order to predict such phenomena (wind speed), an artificial neural network (ANN) prediction model is developed. The model is developed on the basis of the input data obtained by local meteorological station on the University of Rijeka campus area in the Republic of Croatia. The prediction model is validated and evaluated by visual and common calculation approaches, after which it was found that it is possible to perform very good wind speed prediction for time steps Δt=1 h, Δt=3 h, and Δt=8 h. The developed model is implemented in the EWS as a decision support for improvement of the existing “procedure plan in a case of the emergency caused by stormy wind or hurricane, snow and occurrence of the ice on the University of Rijeka campus.”
ISSN:1076-2787
1099-0526
DOI:10.1155/2017/3418145