Comparison of Monthly Rainfall Prediction using Long Short Term Memory and Multi Layer Perceptron Methods in South Tangerang City

Rainfall is one of the meteorological and climatological parameters whose information must be disseminated to the public and related stakeholders. Rainfall information has an important role in the sectors of people's lives. In agriculture, the amount of rainfall has an important role in determining the planting season, so that this can prevent potential crop failure. On Disaster, South Tangerang City during the 2016-2021 period experienced floods, landslides, and droughts. Therefore, the importance of rainfall prediction information can improve meteorological and climatological information services in various sectors. Nevertheless, it is still difficult for the community and stakeholders to get monthly rainfall predictions with high accuracy in the long term. In this research, monthly rainfall prediction is designed using MLP (Multi Layer Perceptron) and LSTM (Long Short Term Memory). The data used is the monthly rainfall data of Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitations (CHIRPS) for 42 years (period 1981-2022) with coordinate boundaries according to the research location, namely South Tangerang City, which is located between 106.625 º - 106.825 º East and 6.4 ° - 6.2 ° LS as many as 16 grids with a resolution of 0.05 ° each grid. Monthly rainfall prediction using MLP produces an RMSE value of 90.19, and a MAPE of 40.55, while the LSTM method produces an RMSE value of 88.12 and a MAPE of 40.49. Monthly rainfall prediction results using the LSTM method are better than the MLP method; this can be seen from the RMSE value of the LSTM method is smaller than MLP.