Simulation of Daily Rainfall from Concurrent Meteorological Parameters over Core Monsoon Region of India: A Novel Approach

Table 4

Sensitivity analysis of MLP model with respect to input meteorological parameters at different pressure levels between 1000 and 300 mb.

Pressure level slabs (mb)	Number of meteorological parameters	Error statistics of simulated daily rainfall with respect to the observed daily rainfall
		Testing data set			Validation data set
		rmse (mm/day)	bias (mm/day)	cc	rmse (mm/day)	bias (mm/day)	cc
1000	24	12.00	2.46	0.46	12.08	−0.99	0.39
1000–925	48	11.88	2.37	0.49	14.45	−1.48	0.40
1000–850	72	11.87	2.37	0.50	9.79	1.49	0.47
1000–700	96	11.82	2.34	0.51	9.78	1.57	0.48
1000–600	120	12.09	2.55	0.48	10.06	1.61	0.43
1000–500	144	11.99	2.64	0.52	10.48	2.35	0.46
1000–400	168	12.15	2.75	0.48	9.99	0.53	0.42
1000–300	192	12.01	2.64	0.45	10.13	1.17	0.42

mb: millibar.