Seasonal to Inter-annual Climate Prediction Using Data Mining KNN Technique (original) (raw)

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The impact of seasonal to inter-annual climate prediction on society, business, agriculture and almost all aspects of human life, force the scientist to give proper attention to the matter. The last few years show tremendous achievements in this field. All systems and techniques developed so far, use the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) as the main factor, among other seasonal climatic attributes. Statistical and mathematical models are then used for further climate predictions. In this paper, we develop a system that uses the historical weather data of a region (rain, wind speed, dew point, temperature, etc.), and apply the data-mining algorithm “K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN)” for classification of these historical data into a specific time span. The k nearest time spans (k nearest neighbors) are then taken to predict the weather. Our experiments show that the system generates accurate results within reasonable time for months in advance.

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  1. FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, A. K. Brohi Road, H-11/4, Islamabad, Pakistan
    Zahoor Jan & Anwar M. Mirza
  2. NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar, Pakistan
    Muhammad Abrar
  3. Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    Shariq Bashir

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  1. Zahoor Jan
  2. Muhammad Abrar
  3. Shariq Bashir
  4. Anwar M. Mirza

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  1. Department of Software Engineering & Media Technology, Aalborg University, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark
    D. M. Akbar Hussain
  2. Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan
    Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput
  3. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical, Electronics & Computer Engineering, Mehran UET, Jamshoro, Pakistan
    Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry
  4. Learning Societies Lab, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
    Quintin Gee

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Jan, Z., Abrar, M., Bashir, S., Mirza, A.M. (2008). Seasonal to Inter-annual Climate Prediction Using Data Mining KNN Technique. In: Hussain, D.M.A., Rajput, A.Q.K., Chowdhry, B.S., Gee, Q. (eds) Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems. IMTIC 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89853-5\_7

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