On the Investigation of Monthly River Flow Generation Complexity Using the Applicability of Machine Learning Models

Table 1

Morphological and flow data characteristics.

	Upper Zab	Lower Zab	Diyala
Basin area (km^2)	16863	11706	15765
Basin slope (m/m)	0.350	0.265	0.252
Average over land flow (m)	5.878	6.05	6.92
Perimeter (km)	1141.2	1053	1368.16
Basin length (km)	189.9	125	165.76
Mean basin elevation (m)	1870	1381.60	1551.15
Flow data record	1932–2004	1932–2004	1932–2004
Maximum flow (m^3/s)	1681	1135	947
Minimum flow (m^3/s)	32	9	3
Standard deviation (m^3/s)	277	180	148
Mean (m^3/s)	369	193	150