In order to allow the key stakeholders to have more float time to take appropriate precautionary and preventive measures, an accurate prediction of water quality pollution is very significant. Since a variety of existing water quality models involve exogenous input and different assumptions, artificial neural networks have the potential to be a cost-effective solution. This paper presents the application of a split-step particle swarm optimization (PSO) model for training perceptions to forecast real-time algal bloom dynamics in Tolo Harbour of Hong Kong. The advantages of global search capability of PSO algorithm in the first step and local fast convergence of Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm in the second step are combined together. The results demonstrate that, when compared with the benchmark backward propagation algorithm and the usual PSO algorithm, it attains a higher accuracy in a much shorter time.
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