The invention discloses an improved
whale optimization
algorithm and SVRM short-term
icing prediction method based on a
random forest, and the method comprises the steps: (1) obtaining all micrometeorological data and the equivalent
icing thickness thereof, carrying out the mapping along with a
time sequence, preprocessing the data, and dividing the data into a
training set and a
test set; (2) analyzing the influence of each meteorological factor on
icing growth based on a
random forest algorithm, obtaining an icing influence rate through the
random forest algorithm, and taking the characteristic quantity with the high influence rate as an input characteristic quantity; (3) initializing a
support vector machine regression model; (4) adding stage position updating in the basic
whale optimization algorithm, and adding adaptive weight for improvement; (5) optimizing a kernel parameter and a
penalty factor of the
support vector machine regression model by using an improved
whale algorithm; and (6) reconstructing a
support vector machine regression model by using the obtained optimal parameters, training the support vector
machine regression model by using the
training set, testing the input of the
test set, obtaining a final icing prediction value, and performing error calculation on a prediction result.