TY - JFULL AU - Hamid Goharnejad and Amir Hossein Eghbali PY - 2015/12/ TI - Forecasting the Sea Level Change in Strait of Hormuz T2 - International Journal of Geological and Environmental Engineering SP - 1328 EP - 1332 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10002861 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 107, 2015 N2 - Recent investigations have demonstrated the global sea level rise due to climate change impacts. In this study, climate changes study the effects of increasing water level in the strait of Hormuz. The probable changes of sea level rise should be investigated to employ the adaption strategies. The climatic output data of a GCM (General Circulation Model) named CGCM3 under climate change scenario of A1b and A2 were used. Among different variables simulated by this model, those of maximum correlation with sea level changes in the study region and least redundancy among themselves were selected for sea level rise prediction by using stepwise regression. One of models (Discrete Wavelet artificial Neural Network) was developed to explore the relationship between climatic variables and sea level changes. In these models, wavelet was used to disaggregate the time series of input and output data into different components and then ANN was used to relate the disaggregated components of predictors and input parameters to each other. The results showed in the Shahid Rajae Station for scenario A1B sea level rise is among 64 to 75 cm and for the A2 Scenario sea level rise is among 90 t0 105 cm. Furthermore, the result showed a significant increase of sea level at the study region under climate change impacts, which should be incorporated in coastal areas management. ER -