Jordan is suffering a chronicle water resources shortage. Rainfall is the real input for all water resources in the country. Acceptable accuracy of rainfall prediction is of great importance in order to manage water resources and climate change issues. The actual study include the analysis of time series trends of climate change regards to rainfall parameter. Available rainfall data for five stations from central Jordan where obtained from the Ministry of water and irrigation that cover the interval 1938-2018. Data have been analyzed using Nonlinear Autoregressive Artificial Neural Networks NAR-ANN) based on Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The NAR model tested the rainfall data using one input layer, one hidden layer and one output layer with a different combinations of number of neuron in hidden layer and epochs. The best combination was using 25 neurons and 12 epochs. The classification performance or the quality of result is measured by mean square error (MSE). For all the meteorological stations, the MSE values were negligible ranging between 4.32*10 -4 and 1.83*10 -5 . The rainfall prediction result show that forecasting rainfall values in the base of calendar year are almost identical with those estimated for seasonal year when dealing with long record of years. The average predicted rainfall values for the coming ten-year in comparison with long-term rainfall average show; strong decline for Dana station, some decrees for Rashadia station, huge increase in Abur station, and relatively limited change between predicted and long-term average for Busira and Muhai Stations.
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