Comparative study of wavelet-ARIMA and wavelet-ANN models for temperature time series data in northeastern Bangladesh

Time-series analyses of temperature data are important for investigating temperature variation and predicting temperature change. Here, Mann–Kendall (M–K) analyses of temperature time-series data in northeastern Bangladesh indicated increasing trends (Sen’s slope of maximum and minimum yearly temperature at Sylhet of 0.03 °C and 0.026 °C, respectively, and a minimum temperature at Sreemangal of 0.024 °C) except for the maximum temperature at Sreemangal. The linear trends showed that the maximum temperature is increasing by 2.97 °C and 0.59 °C per hundred years, and the minimum, by 2.17 °C and 2.73 °C per hundred years at the Sylhet and Sreemangal stations, indicating that climate change is affecting temperature in this area. This paper presents an alternative method for temperature prediction by combining…