|
Accurate prediction for the wave climate is an essential part in the ocean engineering. This paper reports an application of the artificial neural network for accurate forecast of waves from a time series of the field data. This paper also presents the wave supplementary for a wave record using the neural network model. The back-propagation procedures for minimizing the error of the desired output is used in the learning process of the neural network. The field data measured in three wave stations at Taichung Harbor were used to test theperformance of the neural network model. The wave prediction from the time series of one wave stationor two wave stations is presented. It is found that the neural network model performs well for the waveforecast and wave supplementary when a very short-term wave data is used as a training set. In general, the wave prediction or wave supplementaryfrom the time series of two wave stations has betterperformance than one wave station records used. It is also found that the performance of theprediction of significant wave heights isbetter than that of wave periods.
|