Application of Soft Computing techniques in weather forecasting: ANN approach

With the rise in the threat of global warming and green house gas effect, it has been a challenging and most important task of the metrological centers worldwide to predict weather in future. Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location and they are made by collecting quantitative data. Soft computing is an innovative approach to construct computationally intelligent systems that are supposed to possess humanlike expertise within a specific domain, adapt themselves and learn to do better in changing environments, and explain how they make decisions. Soft computing techniques are Fuzzy logic, Neural Network, Evolutionary computing, Genetic Algorithm etc., In this paper we analyze soft computing techniques and apply them to forecast weather.