Analysis of New Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Models in Estimating Flood Flow

Flood is one of the natural phenomena that causes a lot of human and financial losses in the world every year and creates many problems for the economic and social development of countries. Therefore, in order to reduce the damage, control and guidance of this phenomenon, estimating flood discharge and identifying the factors affecting it is very important. In this study, in order to estimate the flood discharge of Kashkan catchment located in Lorestan province, new hybrid artificial intelligence models including artificial neural network - innovative gunner, artificial neural network - black widow spider and artificial neural network - chicken crowding during the period 1300-1400 were used. To evaluate the simulation performance, statistical indices of determination coefficient (R2), absolute mean error (MAE), Nash-Sutcliffe productivity coefficient (NSE), bias percentage (PBIAS) were used. The results showed that hybrid artificial intelligence models improve the performance of the single model. The results showed that the artificial neural network- innovative gunner model has more accuracy and less error than other models. Overall, the results showed that the use of hybrid artificial intelligence models is effective in estimating flood discharge and can be considered as a suitable and rapid solution in water resources management.