Application of Artificial Neural Networks Model as Analytical Tool for Groundwater Salinity英文文献资料.docVIP

Journal of Environmental Protection, 2011, 2, 56-71 doi:10.4236/jep.2011.21006 Published Online March 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jep) Application of Artificial Neural Networks Model as Analytical Tool for Groundwater Salinity Mohamed Seyam , Yunes Mogheir 1 2 1 Civil Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine; Environmental Engineering De- 2 partment, Engineering Faculty, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine. Email: mohseyam@, ymogheir@.ps Received September 1 , 2010; revised October 28 , 2010; accepted December 7 , 2010. st th th ABSTRACT The main source of water in Gaza Strip is the shallow coastal aquifer. It is extremely deteriorated in terms of salinity which influenced by many variables. Studying the relation between these variables and salinity is often a complex and nonlinear process, making it suitable to model by Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Initially, it is assumed that the salinity (represented by chloride concentration, mg/l) may be affected by some variables as: recharge rate, abstraction, abstraction average rate, life time and aquifer thickness. Data were extracted from 56 municipal wells, covering the area of Gaza Strip. After a number of modeling trials, the best neural network was determined to be Multilayer Percep- tron network (MLP) with four layers: an input layer of 6 neurons, first hidden layer with 10 neurons, second hidden layer with 7 neurons and the output layer with 1 neuron which gives the final chloride concentration. The ANN model generated very good results depending on the high correlation between the observed and simulated values of chloride concentration. The correlation coefficient (r) was 0.9848. The high value of (r) showed that the