Exploring Hybrid Approaches for Weather Forecasting Domain: A Review

Authors

  • Malvina Xhabafti University of Tirana
  • Valentina Sinaj University of Tirana

Keywords:

weather forecast; literature review; hybrid methods; performance metrics

Abstract

Weather forecasting is considered one of the most important areas of forecasting as a result of the decisive role it has in different sectors of a country's economy from agriculture to aviation and from disaster management to daily planning. Taking into account the complex and dynamic nature of atmospheric conditions, forecasting through traditional methods does not complete the full panorama of an accurate and qualitative forecast and the approach has turned towards hybrid methodologies. In this paper, we performed a literature review in the domain of weather forecast, with a focus on some of its most important metrological fields, looking at the performance of hybrid approaches for each category. From the entire review process, starting with the selection of databases, defining search keywords, and exclusion criteria and up to the selection of works that would be part of the analysis, 67 papers were selected, referring to the title and abstract of the paper, and then with complete quality analysis, 14 papers were selected to be reviewed and be the main part of the analysis. A detailed review was made, where for each category the effectiveness and quality of the hybrid approaches are demonstrated and highlighting some of the most hybrid models used.

Author Biographies

Malvina Xhabafti, University of Tirana

PhD in progress, Department of Statistics and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Economy

Valentina Sinaj, University of Tirana

Prof. Dr, Department of Statistics and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Economy

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2024-07-31

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