A Proposed ANN and FLSM Hybrid Model for Tidal Current Magnitude and Direction Forecasting

The paper proposes a hybrid model of an artificial neural network (ANN) and Fourier series model based on the least squares method (FLSM) for monthly forecasting of tidal current magnitude and direction. The proposed hybrid model is highly accurate and outperforms either of the ANN or the FLSM applied alone. This study was done using data collected from the Bay of Fundy, NS, Canada, in 2008.