1 Assistant professor, Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran 2 M.Sc. Student, Water Resources Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran 3M.Sc. Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran ABSTRACT: This paper provides a solution for Dez reservoir inflow forecasting using an artificial neural network model (ANN) and a multiple regression model. Moreover it aims to define the best pattern with spatial and temporal correlation, in daily time scale, among stations on dam upstream, in two scenarios.