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JOURNAL OF WATER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 2814-2834Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2021.336
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AERONET; aerosols; AOD; artificial neural network
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Aerosols play a vital role in the earth's climate system, and the artificial neural network technique shows promising performance in simulating aerosol properties. Optimal selection of learning rate values and number of iterations is crucial for accurate results with low computational cost.
Aerosols are an integral part of the earth's climate system and their effect on climate makes this field a relevant research problem. The artificial neural network (ANN) technique is an upcoming technique in different research fields. In the current work, we have evaluated the performance of an ANN with its parameters in simulating the aerosol's properties. ANN evaluation is performed over three sites (Kanpur, Jaipur, and Gandhi College) in the Indian region. We evaluated the performance of ANN for model's hyperparameter (number of hidden layers) and optimizer's hyperparameters (learning rate and number of iterations). The optical properties of aerosols from AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) are used as input to ANN to estimate the aerosol optical depth (AOD) and Angstrom exponent. Results emphasized the need for optimal learning rate values and the number of iterations to get accurate results with low computational cost and to avoid overfitting. We observed a 23-25% increase in computational time with an increase in iteration. Thus, a meticulous selection of these parameters should be made for accurate estimations. The result indicates that the developed ANN can be utilized to derive AOD, which is not assessed at AERONET stations.
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