3-7 July 2017
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Weather forecasting using deep learning

5 Jul 2017, 11:50
20m
A403B (Engineering Building 51)

A403B

Engineering Building 51

Oral Presentation Track F - Applied Physics Applied Physics

Speaker

Mr Makhamisa Senekane (Quantum Research Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa)

Description

Weather changes play a significant role in peoples' short term, medium term or long term planning. Therefore, understanding of weather patterns has become very important in decision making. Various tools have been suggested for forecasting weather. These tools include the use of artificial intelligence techniques such as artificial neural networks and other machine learning methods. In this paper, we report a short-term weather forecasting method which uses deep learning machine learning technique. Deep learning is chosen due to its hierarchiacal structure, which is well suited for weather forecasting. High accuracy of the results obtained shows that deep learning is an appropriate tool to use for forecasting the weather.

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Primary author

Mr Makhamisa Senekane (Quantum Research Group, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa)

Co-authors

Dr Mhlambululi Mafu (Botswana International University of Science and Technology) Dr Molibeli Taele (National University of Lesotho)

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