Author:
Patil Kalpesh Ravindra,Doi Takeshi,Jayanthi Venkata Ratnam,Behera Swadhin
Abstract
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the fundamental drivers of the Earth's climate variability. Thus, its skillful prediction at least a few months to years ahead is of utmost importance to society. Using both dynamical and statistical methods, several studies reported skillful ENSO predictions at various lead times. Predictions with long lead times, on the other hand, remain difficult. In this study, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based statistical ENSO prediction system with heterogeneous CNN parameters for each season with a modified loss function to predict ENSO at least 18–24 months ahead. The developed prediction system indicates that the CNN model is highly skillful in predicting ENSO at long lead times of 18–24 months with high skills in predicting extreme ENSO events compared with the Scale Interaction Experiment-Frontier ver. 2 (SINTEX-F2) dynamical system and several other statistical prediction systems. The analysis indicates that the CNN model can overcome the spring barrier, a major hindrance to dynamical prediction systems, in predicting ENSO at long lead times. The improvement in the prediction skill can partly be attributed to the heterogeneous parameters of seasonal CNN models used in this study and also to the use of a modified loss function in the CNN model. In this study, we also attempted to identify various precursors to ENSO events using CNN heatmap analysis.
Funder
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Atmospheric Science,Pollution,Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Global and Planetary Change
Cited by
3 articles.
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