Black-box modeling for temperature prediction in weather forecasting

Zahra Karevan; Siamak Mehrkanoon; Johan A.K. Suykens

doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280671

Black-box modeling for temperature prediction in weather forecasting

Zahra Karevan
, Siamak Mehrkanoon
, Johan A.K. Suykens

KU Leuven
extern

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Abstract

Accurate weather forecasting is one of most challenging tasks that deals with a large amount of observations and features. In this paper, a black-box modeling technique is proposed for temperature forecasting. Due to the high dimensionality of data, feature selection is done in two steps with k-Nearest Neighbors and Elastic net. Next, Least Squares Support Vector Machine regression is applied to generate the forecasting model. In the experimental results, the influence of each part of this procedure on the performance is investigated and compared with 'Weather underground' results. For the case study, the prediction of the temperature in Brussels is considered. It is shown that black-box modeling has a good and competitive accuracy with current state-of-the-art methods for temperature prediction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479919604, 9781479919604, 9781479919604, 9781479919604
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280671
Publication status	Published - 28 Sept 2015
Event	International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015 - Killarney, Ireland Duration: 12 Jul 2015 → 17 Jul 2015

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Name	Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Volume	2015-September

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Conference	International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Killarney
Period	12/07/15 → 17/07/15

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Support vector machines

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Karevan, Z, Mehrkanoon, S & Suykens, JAK 2015, Black-box modeling for temperature prediction in weather forecasting. in 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015., 7280671, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 2015-September, IEEE, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015, Killarney, Ireland, 12/07/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280671

Black-box modeling for temperature prediction in weather forecasting. / Karevan, Zahra; Mehrkanoon, Siamak; Suykens, Johan A.K.
2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015. IEEE, 2015. 7280671 (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks; Vol. 2015-September).

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