“…ANNs have been shown to perform accurately in various fields of water resources. Streamflow forecasting (Chitsaz et al 2016;Yaseen et al 2018;Araghinejad et al 2018;Thakur et al, 2020, Ghobadi & Kang;Mo et al, 2023;Tyson et al, 2023), predicting groundwater levels (Khalil et al 2015;Naderianfar et al 2017;Sahoo et al, 2017 ;Sattari et al, 2018;Dadhich et al, 2021;Navale & Mhaske, 2023), drought forecasting (Hosseini-Moghari and Araghinejad 2015;Mokhtarzad et al 2017;Khan et al, 2020;Alawsi et al, 2022), flood forecasting (Latt and Wittenberg 2014;Alexander and Thampi 2018;Dtissibe et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2022), sediment estimation (Banihabib and Emami 2017;Zounemat-Kermani et al 2018;Banadkooki et al, 2020;Yadav et al, 2022) and evaporation modeling (Antonopoulos 2016;Nourani et al, 2020;Arya Azar et al, 2023) are the most common uses of ANN in hydrology. In many studies, R-R modeling is conducted by employing an ANN.…”