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To efficiently obtain high accuracy short-term forecasting states of oceanic parameters of interest, a robust soft computing approach\u2014Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)\u2014was applied to predict surface currents in a tide- and wind-dominated coastal area. Hourly observed surface currents from a Coastal Ocean Dynamic Application Radar (CODAR) system, and tide and wind data from forecasting models were used to establish ANN models for Galway Bay area. One of the fastest algorithms, resilient back propagation, was used to adapt all weights and biases. This study focused on investigating the sensitivity of an ANN model to a series of different input datasets. Results indicate that correlation between ANN forecasts and observation was greater than 0.9 for both surface velocity components with one-hour lead time. Strong correlation (   \u2265   0.75) was obtained between predicted results and radar data for both surface velocity components with three-hour lead time at best. However, forecasting accuracy deteriorated rapidly with longer lead time. By comparison with previous data assimilation models, in this research, best performance was achieved from ANN model\u2019s peak times of the tidally dominant surface velocity component. 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