Improving Monsoon Precipitation Prediction Using Combined Convolutional and Long Short Term Memory Neural Network
Abstract
Precipitation downscaling is widely employed for enhancing the resolution and accuracy of precipitation products from general circulation models (GCMs). In this study, we propose a novel statistical downscaling method to foster GCMs’ precipitation prediction resolution and accuracy for the monsoon region. We develop a deep neural network composed of a convolution and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent module to estimate precipitation based on well-resolved atmospheric dynamical fields. The proposed model is compared against the GCM precipitation product and classical downscaling methods in the Xiangjiang River Basin in South China. Results show considerable improvement compared to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)-Interim reanalysis precipitation. Also, the model outperforms benchmark downscaling approaches, including (1) quantile mapping, (2) the support vector machine, and (3) the convolutional neural network. To test the robustness of the model and its applicability in practical forecasting, we apply the trained network for precipitation prediction forced by retrospective forecasts from the ECMWF model. Compared to the ECMWF precipitation forecast, our model makes better use of the resolved dynamical field for more accurate precipitation prediction at lead times from 1 day up to 2 weeks. This superiority decreases with the forecast lead time, as the GCM’s skillmore »
- Authors:
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- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China); China Inst. of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of International Affairs (IA); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); China Scholarship Council
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1613794
- Grant/Contract Number:
- IA0000018; 41661144031
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Water (Basel)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Water (Basel); Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2073-4441
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Water Resources; precipitation downscaling; convolutional neural networks; long short term memory networks; hydrological simulation
Citation Formats
Miao, Qinghua, Pan, Baoxiang, Wang, Hao, Hsu, Kuolin, and Sorooshian, Soroosh. Improving Monsoon Precipitation Prediction Using Combined Convolutional and Long Short Term Memory Neural Network. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.3390/w11050977.
Miao, Qinghua, Pan, Baoxiang, Wang, Hao, Hsu, Kuolin, & Sorooshian, Soroosh. Improving Monsoon Precipitation Prediction Using Combined Convolutional and Long Short Term Memory Neural Network. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11050977
Miao, Qinghua, Pan, Baoxiang, Wang, Hao, Hsu, Kuolin, and Sorooshian, Soroosh. Thu .
"Improving Monsoon Precipitation Prediction Using Combined Convolutional and Long Short Term Memory Neural Network". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11050977. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1613794.
@article{osti_1613794,
title = {Improving Monsoon Precipitation Prediction Using Combined Convolutional and Long Short Term Memory Neural Network},
author = {Miao, Qinghua and Pan, Baoxiang and Wang, Hao and Hsu, Kuolin and Sorooshian, Soroosh},
abstractNote = {Precipitation downscaling is widely employed for enhancing the resolution and accuracy of precipitation products from general circulation models (GCMs). In this study, we propose a novel statistical downscaling method to foster GCMs’ precipitation prediction resolution and accuracy for the monsoon region. We develop a deep neural network composed of a convolution and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent module to estimate precipitation based on well-resolved atmospheric dynamical fields. The proposed model is compared against the GCM precipitation product and classical downscaling methods in the Xiangjiang River Basin in South China. Results show considerable improvement compared to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)-Interim reanalysis precipitation. Also, the model outperforms benchmark downscaling approaches, including (1) quantile mapping, (2) the support vector machine, and (3) the convolutional neural network. To test the robustness of the model and its applicability in practical forecasting, we apply the trained network for precipitation prediction forced by retrospective forecasts from the ECMWF model. Compared to the ECMWF precipitation forecast, our model makes better use of the resolved dynamical field for more accurate precipitation prediction at lead times from 1 day up to 2 weeks. This superiority decreases with the forecast lead time, as the GCM’s skill in predicting atmospheric dynamics is diminished by the chaotic effect. Finally, we build a distributed hydrological model and force it with different sources of precipitation inputs. Hydrological simulation forced with the neural network precipitation estimation shows significant advantage over simulation forced with the original ERA-Interim precipitation (with NSE value increases from 0.06 to 0.64), and the performance is only slightly worse than the observed precipitation forced simulation (NSE = 0.82). This further proves the value of the proposed downscaling method, and suggests its potential for hydrological forecasts.},
doi = {10.3390/w11050977},
journal = {Water (Basel)},
number = 5,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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