A SUPERIOR TRAINING STRATEGY FOR THREE-LAYER FEEDFORWARD ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

This research was partially supported by grants from the Hydrologic Research Laboratory of the U.S. National Weather Service (Grant no. NA37WH0385), the NASA -EOS Interdisciplinary Research Program (IDP -88 -086), and the NOAA Research Program (NA16RC0119 -0). The first author greatly appreciates the fellowship support provided by the NASA Global Change Program (Grant No. NGT- 30045).

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