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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2120</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK - A TOOL FOR PREDICTION OF MONSOON RAINFALL OVER TAMIL&#13;
NADU&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Selvaraj</surname><given-names>R. Samuel</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Aditya</surname><given-names>Raajalakshmi</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>5</fpage><lpage>8</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Over the last few decades, several models have been developed, attempting the successful&#13;
forecasting of rainfall in India. Though some of these models show notable accuracies in short&#13;
term rainfall occurrence prediction, long term prediction and rainfall depth prediction has&#13;
proven to be somewhat difficult using traditional statistical methods. The reason being, that the&#13;
rainfall dynamics are dependant upon highly unpredictable physical parameters, such as&#13;
humidity, wind speed, wind direction, pressure, temperature and cloud amount. This paper&#13;
gives the idea about Northeast monsoon rainfall over Tamil Nadu through neural network. The&#13;
model can predict Northeast monsoon rainfall based on the parameters like Outgoing Long&#13;
wave Radiation (OLR), Global temperature and Sunspot number as input variable. The model&#13;
can perform well both in training and testing periods.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Monsoon rainfall</kwd><kwd> Neural network</kwd><kwd> Outgoing Long wave Radiation</kwd><kwd> Global temperature</kwd><kwd> Sunspot number.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
