Strong Spatiotemporal Radar Echo Nowcasting Combining 3DCNN and Bi-Directional Convolutional LSTM
Open Access
- 29 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Atmosphere
- Vol. 11 (6), 569
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11060569
Abstract
In order to solve the existing problems of easy spatiotemporal information loss and low forecast accuracy in traditional radar echo nowcasting, this paper proposes an encoding-forecasting model (3DCNN-BCLSTM) combining 3DCNN and bi-directional convolutional long short-term memory. The model first constructs dimensions of input data and gets 3D tensor data with spatiotemporal features, extracts local short-term spatiotemporal features of radar echoes through 3D convolution networks, then utilizes constructed bi-directional convolutional LSTM to learn global long-term spatiotemporal feature dependencies, and finally realizes the forecast of echo image changes by forecasting network. This structure can capture the spatiotemporal correlation of radar echoes in continuous motion fully and realize more accurate forecast of moving trend of short-term radar echoes within a region. The samples of radar echo images recorded by Shenzhen and Hong Kong meteorological stations are used for experiments, the results show that the critical success index (CSI) of this proposed model for eight predicted echoes reaches 0.578 when the echo threshold is 10 dBZ, the false alarm ratio (FAR) is 20% lower than convolutional LSTM network (ConvLSTM), and the mean square error (MSE) is 16% lower than the real-time optical flow by variational method (ROVER), which outperforms the current state-of-the-art radar echo nowcasting methods.Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61906097, 41875184)
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