A Forecast-Refinement Neural Network Based on DyConvGRU and U-Net for Radar Echo Extrapolation

Precipitation nowcasting is very important for the sectors which critically depend on timely and accurate weather information. One of the challenges of precipitation nowcasting is radar echo extrapolation which predicts the radar echo images accurately. Nowadays, the methods of radar echo extrapolat...

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Published in:IEEE access 2023-01, Vol.11, p.1-1
Main Authors: Yao, Jinliang, Xu, Feifan, Qian, Zheng, Cai, Zhipeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Convolution
DyConvGRU
dynamic convolution
Extrapolation
False alarms
Generative adversarial networks
Lead time
Meteorological data
Modules
Neural networks
Nowcasting
Precipitation
Predictive models
radar echo extrapolation
Radar echoes
Radar imaging
Reflectance
Spatiotemporal phenomena
Spatiotemporal sequence prediction
U-Net
WGAN
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Summary:Precipitation nowcasting is very important for the sectors which critically depend on timely and accurate weather information. One of the challenges of precipitation nowcasting is radar echo extrapolation which predicts the radar echo images accurately. Nowadays, the methods of radar echo extrapolation are mostly based on ConvRNNs. Unfortunately, as lead time increases, these methods unavoidably suffer from the problem that high reflectivity values are underestimated. Therefore, we propose a forecast-refinement neural network based on DyConvGRU and U-Net to improve the predicting ability for high reflectivity during radar echo extrapolation. To improve the model's ability to predict high reflectivities, dynamic convolution, and the forecast-refinement architecture are applied. And to obtain more realistic results, the WGAN's training strategy is adopted to train the forecast module and the refinement module. Through experiments on a radar dataset from Shanghai, China, the results show that our proposed method obtains higher Probability of Detection (POD), Critical Success Index (CSI), Heidke Skill Score (HSS), and lower False Alarm Rate(FAR).
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3280932