Radar Based Precipitation Nowcasting Prediction by Using Deep Learning Techniques

Abstract

Nowcasting is an emerging area in meteorology that focuses on accurately anticipating the severity of short-term rainfall for a particular location. It is essential to many facets of society. Owing to its significance, researchers are experimenting to predict short term rainfall using neural network approaches. This study analyses proposes a novel method of merging Convolutional Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memory neural networks on a radar echo dataset. The model was tested against a synthetic moving mnist dataset before applying on actual radar image dataset. Given the previous radar images, the model could successfully find future image sequences and obtained an accuracy of more than 90%.