I would like to do a prediction for rainfall data

Hello,

I have monthly rainfall data for 20 years I would like to generate a predtion for another 20 years, is there any tool in Matlab that can help.

Thanks in advance!

Riyadh

[Dyuman Joshi]

There are many tools, but it is difficult to suggest anything with no specific information.

As a general suggestion, I would say to ask the MATLAB Central AI Chat Playground to see the available options. It will provide examples on how to use the functionalities as well.

[Riyadh]

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Udit06]

Hi @Riyadh,

Your tasks seems like a univariate timeseries forecasting. You can use ARIMA model or LSTM network to achieve your task.

ARIMA is a traditional statistical model used for timeseries forecasting that uses a linear approach to model the time series based on its own past values, while LSTM is a type of recurrent neural network (RNN) which captures the trends in a timeseries data like monthly rainfall over the years. Since LSTM is a deep learning based model, you need to have a large data so that the model is able to train well.

You can refer to the following documentations to understand more about ARIMA and LSTM respectively.

• https://www.mathworks.com/help/econ/arima.html
• https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ug/time-series-forecasting-using-deep-learning.html

I hope this helps.

[Riyadh]

Thank you!