Zhiyun Yang^1,#, Qi Liu^1,#,*, Hao Wu¹, Xiaodong Liu², Yonghong Zhang³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 45-64, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022045

Abstract Accurate precipitation nowcasting can provide great convenience to the public so they can conduct corresponding arrangements in advance to deal with the possible impact of upcoming heavy rain. Recent relevant research activities have shown their concerns on various deep learning models for radar echo extrapolation, where radar echo maps were used to predict their consequent moment, so as to recognize potential severe convective weather events. However, these approaches suffer from an inaccurate prediction of echo dynamics and unreliable depiction of echo aggregation or dissipation, due to the size limitation of convolution filter, lack of global feature, and less attention to… More > Graphic Abstract

Wei Fang^1,2,*, Liang Shen¹, Victor S. Sheng³, Qiongying Xue¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4867-4877, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027197

Abstract Precipitation nowcasting is of great significance for severe convective weather warnings. Radar echo extrapolation is a commonly used precipitation nowcasting method. However, the traditional radar echo extrapolation methods are encountered with the dilemma of low prediction accuracy and extrapolation ambiguity. The reason is that those methods cannot retain important long-term information and fail to capture short-term motion information from the long-range data stream. In order to solve the above problems, we select the spatiotemporal long short-term memory (ST-LSTM) as the recurrent unit of the model and integrate the 3D convolution operation in it to strengthen the model's ability to capture… More >