Postprocessing of NWP Precipitation Forecasts Using Deep Learning

doi:10.1175/WAF-D-21-0207.1

Postprocessing of NWP Precipitation Forecasts Using Deep Learning

2023-03-01

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Adrian Rojas-Campos *

Erik Jan Schaffernicht

DOI：10.1175/WAF-D-21-0207.1

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This study analyzes the potential of deep learning using probabilistic artificial neural networks (ANNs) for postprocessing ensemble precipitation forecasts at four observation locations. We split the precipitation forecast problem into two tasks: estimating the probability of precipitation and predicting the hourly precipitation. We then compare the performance with classical statistical postprocessing (logistical regression and GLM). ANNs show a higher performance at three of the four stations for estimating the probability of precipitation and at all stations for predicting the hourly precipi-tation. Further, two more general ANN models are trained using the merged data from all four stations. These general ANNs exhibit an increase in performance compared to the station-specific ANNs at most stations. However, they show a significant decay in performance at one of the stations at estimating the hourly precipitation. The general models seem capable of learning meaningful interactions in the data and generalizing these to improve the performance at other sites, which also causes the loss of local information at one station. Thus, this study indicates the potential of deep learning in weather forecasting workflows.

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Precipitation

Numerical weather prediction

forecasting

Postprocessing

Deep learning

Neural networks

Rainfall

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