Forecasting Global Temperature Variations by Neural Networks
Author(s) •
Miyano, Takaya
Girosi, Federico
Date Issued
August 1, 1994
Series/Report no.
AIM-1447
CBCL-101
Abstract
Global temperature variations between 1861 and 1984 are forecast usingsregularization networks, multilayer perceptrons and linearsautoregression. The regularization network, optimized by stochasticsgradient descent associated with colored noise, gives the bestsforecasts. For all the models, prediction errors noticeably increasesafter 1965. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that thesclimate dynamics is characterized by low-dimensional chaos and thatsthe it may have changed at some point after 1965, which is alsosconsistent with the recent idea of climate change.s
Subjects
time series prediction
chaotic systems
neural nets
RBF
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