CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -During flood season, IMD provides valuable meteorological support to Central Water Commission for issuing flood warnings.

Detailed explanation-2: -Central Water Commission (CWC) provides statistical methodology (gauge to gauge correlation) based short range flood forecast. Presently, flood forecasts are issued by CWC at 332 stations (133 Inflow Forecast Stations and 199 Level Forecast Stations). Annually, about 10,000 flood forecasts are issued by CWC.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fundamentally, an artificial neural networks (ANN) is realized by the connection of elementary artificial neurons. These neurons are of two types: hidden and output neurons. The type of ANN used in this work for flood forecasting is the MLP that is an ANN with multiple hidden layers, and a single neuron output layer.

Detailed explanation-4: -Central Water Commission had made a small beginning in Flood Forecasting & Warning service in India in November 1958 with . one forecasting station at Delhi, the national capital, on the river Yamuna.