Use of Artificial Intelligence in Temperature and Precipitation Forecasting for the Transylvanian Plain

Description

Climate change represents a growing risk factor for agriculture, climate predictions being very important for adaptation measures. The ecological frame from the Transylvanian Plain is given by the existence of interaction among a great number of factors, of which two are very important for the agro-ecosystem: the first is the thermal background with high temperature variations and low rainfall, characteristics which impose significant restrictions for crop plants and secondly it is the hill orography, with slope land. The present book analyzes the weather evolution of the farm from Agricultural Research and Development Station Turda located on Western Transylvanian Plains, using artificial intelligence. Study developed mathematical models based on data measured in the last 63 years (1957-2019). Agriculture must adapt to the new conditions, taking some measures, the modification or improvement of current plant cultivation technologies, the use of varieties/hybrids that are more resistant or at least tolerant to prolonged drought and during periods with high temperatures, the adoption of new technologies to accumulate/preserve water in the soil for a longer period.