Prediction of the environmental precipitation phenomenon in Aquitania

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https://doi.org/10.24054/rcta.v2i42.2649

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Gradient Boost, Environmental Precipitation, Python, IBM Watson, Meteorology, Machine Learning

Abstract

The science of meteorology generates important predictions about the phenomena, which occur in the atmosphere every day and have a great importance in human activities such as agriculture, the sustainability of ecosystems and climate analysis. This project seeks to create a predictive system for atmospheric precipitation, which works with Machine Learning techniques using data collected from climate monitoring over Aquitania, a town in Boyacá department. To generate this classifier algorithm, the resources of IBM Watson and the tool to create the code in Python: Jupyter Notebook. The algorithm is trained using a dataset, which contains 35 years of meteorological information taken from the settlement Hoya La Manzana. The process developed begins with the refinement and cleaning of the dataset, then, the creation of the training model with 80% of the dataset to proceed with the algorithm test using the remaining 20% and finishes with the analysis of the results obtained in the predictive system implementation relying on evaluation metrics such as precision, accuracy, sensitivity of the system, which allow identifying the variations in performance of each model. An accuracy of almost 96% was achieved with the algorithm based on Decision Trees, this being a possible starting point for the construction of a high-efficiency tool that allows farmers to increase the productivity of the land, anticipating possible climatic changes, which may affect their health and the development of their crops

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Published

2023-12-11 — Updated on 2023-10-12

How to Cite

[1]
V. Bernal-Benítez, J. Gómez-Malagón, and C. Pardo-Beainy, “Prediction of the environmental precipitation phenomenon in Aquitania”, RCTA, vol. 2, no. 42, pp. 17–22, Oct. 2023.

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