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16 Citations
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3 November 2014

We propose a weather prediction model in this article based on neural network and fuzzy inference system (NFIS-WPM), and then apply it to predict daily fuzzy precipitation given meteorological premises for testing. The model consists of two parts: th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
5,396 Views
22 Pages

Development of an Improved Model for Prediction of Short-Term Heavy Precipitation Based on GNSS-Derived PWV

  • Haobo Li,
  • Xiaoming Wang,
  • Suqin Wu,
  • Kefei Zhang and ,
  • Xialan Chen,
  • Cong Qiu,
  • Shaotian Zhang,
  • Jinglei Zhang,
  • Mingqiang Xie and
  • Li Li
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

15 December 2020

Nowadays, the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have become an effective atmospheric observing technique to remotely sense precipitable water vapor (PWV) mainly due to their high spatiotemporal resolutions. In this study, from an investigati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Modelling and Monitoring Using GNSS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,325 Views
18 Pages

Pred-SF: A Precipitation Prediction Model Based on Deep Neural Networks

  • Rongnian Tang,
  • Pu Zhang,
  • Jingjin Wu,
  • Youlong Chen and ,
  • Lingyu Dong,
  • Song Tang and
  • Chuang Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 February 2023

How to predict precipitation accurately and efficiently is the key and difficult problem in the field of weather forecasting. At present, we can obtain accurate meteorological data through many high-precision weather sensors and use them to forecast...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Big Data Analytics in Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
8,976 Views
17 Pages

Prediction of Precipitation Based on Recurrent Neural Networks in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China

  • Jinle Kang,
  • Huimin Wang,
  • Feifei Yuan,
  • Zhiqiang Wang and ,
  • Jing Huang and
  • Tian Qiu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 February 2020

Precipitation is a critical input for hydrologic simulation and prediction, and is widely used for agriculture, water resources management, and prediction of flood and drought, among other activities. Traditional precipitation prediction researches o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Application in Predictive Hydrological Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,993 Views
20 Pages

Research on the Application of CEEMD-LSTM-LSSVM Coupled Model in Regional Precipitation Prediction

  • Jian Chen,
  • Zhikai Guo,
  • Changhui Zhang,
  • Yangyang Tian and
  • Yaowei Li

9 April 2023

Precipitation is a vital component of the regional water resource circulation system. Accurate and efficient precipitation prediction is especially important in the context of global warming, as it can help explore the regional precipitation pattern...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydroclimatic Modeling and Monitoring under Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
29 Pages

Radar precipitation nowcasting remains challenging because a model must not only represent the overall motion trends of large-scale precipitation systems, but also capture the fine-grained structural variations of localized strong echo regions while...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,276 Views
22 Pages

6 March 2024

Due to the complexity and uncertainty of meteorological systems, traditional precipitation forecasting methods have certain limitations. Therefore, based on the common characteristics of meteorological data, a precipitation forecasting model named Mu...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,893 Views
11 Pages

22 December 2021

This study investigated biased prediction of cumulative precipitation, using a variety of patterns of histories of cumulative precipitation, to explore how such biased prediction could delay evacuation or evacuation orders. The irrationality in predi...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,297 Views
16 Pages

2 September 2022

The development of machine learning (ML) provides new means and methods for accurate climate analysis and prediction. This study focuses on summer precipitation prediction using ML algorithms. Based on BCC CSM1.1, ECMWF SEAS5, NCEP CFSv2, and JMA CPS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Scale Climate Change: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,941 Views
17 Pages

Stepwise Identification of Influencing Factors and Prediction of Typhoon Precipitation in Anhui Province Based on the Back Propagation Neural Network Model

  • Yuliang Zhou,
  • Yang Li,
  • Juliang Jin,
  • Ping Zhou and ,
  • Dong Zhang,
  • Shaowei Ning and
  • Yi Cui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 February 2021

Typhoon is one of the most frequent meteorological phenomena that covers most of central-eastern China during the summer. Typhoon-induced precipitation is one of the most important water resources, but it often leads to severe flood disasters. Accura...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrological Modeling in Water Cycle Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,028 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2020

Southeast Australia is frequently impacted by drought, requiring monitoring of how the various factors influencing drought change over time. Precipitation and temperature trends were analysed for Canberra, Australia, revealing decreasing autumn preci...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,409 Views
18 Pages

Machine Learning for Climate Precipitation Prediction Modeling over South America

  • Juliana Aparecida Anochi,
  • Vinícius Albuquerque de Almeida and
  • Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho

24 June 2021

Many natural disasters in South America are linked to meteorological phenomena. Therefore, forecasting and monitoring climatic events are fundamental issues for society and various sectors of the economy. In the last decades, machine learning models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,010 Views
16 Pages

The performance of monthly prediction of extreme precipitation from the BCC-CPSv3-S2Sv2 model over the Yellow River Basin (YRB) using historical hindcast data from 2008 to 2022 was evaluated in this study, mainly from three aspects: overall performan...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,415 Views
14 Pages

RAIN-F+: The Data-Driven Precipitation Prediction Model for Integrated Weather Observations

  • Yeji Choi,
  • Keumgang Cha,
  • Minyoung Back,
  • Hyunguk Choi and
  • Taegyun Jeon

11 September 2021

Quantitative precipitation prediction is essential for managing water-related disasters, including floods, landslides, tsunamis, and droughts. Recent advances in data-driven approaches using deep learning techniques provide improved precipitation now...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,643 Views
17 Pages

25 September 2023

This study employs precipitation data sets from historical trials on 20 CMIP6 global climate models and four shared socioeconomic pathway scenario trials (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5) to predict trends in extreme precipitation changes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Characteristics of Extreme Climate Events over China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,271 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2021

Accurate precipitation prediction is of great significance for regional flood control and disaster mitigation. This study introduced a prediction model based on the least square support vector machine (LSSVM) optimized by the genetic algorithm (GA)....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrological Responses under Climate Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,912 Views
28 Pages

6 September 2024

Accurate precipitation intensity forecasting is crucial for effective flood management and early warning systems. This study evaluates the performances of convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) models in predicting hourl...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,506 Views
16 Pages

Meteorological disasters are the result of the interaction of multiple factors and multiple systems. In order to improve the accuracy of prediction, it is necessary not only to consider the characteristics and cycles of each subsystem, but also to st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change, Climatic Extremes, and Human Societies in the Past)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,785 Views
16 Pages

South America Seasonal Precipitation Prediction by Gradient-Boosting Machine-Learning Approach

  • Vinicius Schmidt Monego,
  • Juliana Aparecida Anochi and
  • Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho

31 January 2022

Machine learning has experienced great success in many applications. Precipitation is a hard meteorological variable to predict, but it has a strong impact on society. Here, a machine-learning technique—a formulation of gradient-boosted trees&m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Modeling and Statistical Analysis of Severe Weather Conditions and Extreme Events)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,606 Views
18 Pages

Improving Predictions of Tibetan Plateau Summer Precipitation Using a Sea Surface Temperature Analog-Based Correction Method

  • Lin Wang,
  • Hong-Li Ren,
  • Xiangde Xu,
  • Li Gao and ,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Jian Li,
  • Huizheng Che,
  • Yaqiang Wang and
  • Xiaoye Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

8 December 2023

Boreal summer precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is difficult to predict in current climate models and has become a challenging issue. To address this issue, a new analog-based correction method has been developed. Our analysis reveals a sub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Effects on the Climate of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,876 Views
12 Pages

Potential Predictability of Seasonal Global Precipitation Associated with ENSO and MJO

  • Haibo Liu,
  • Xiaogu Zheng,
  • Jing Yuan and
  • Carsten S. Frederiksen

7 April 2023

A covariance decomposition method is applied to a monthly global precipitation dataset to decompose the interannual variability in the seasonal mean time series into an unpredictable component related to “weather noise” and to a potential...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydroclimate in a Changing World: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
12,806 Views
15 Pages

17 May 2017

Precipitation is a very important topic in weather forecasts. Weather forecasts, especially precipitation prediction, poses complex tasks because they depend on various parameters to predict the dependent variables like temperature, humidity, wind sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,120 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Space Seasonal Precipitation Prediction Model Applied to the Source Region of the Yangtze River, China

  • Yiheng Du,
  • Ronny Berndtsson,
  • Dong An,
  • Linus Zhang and ,
  • Feifei Yuan,
  • Cintia Bertacchi Uvo and
  • Zhenchun Hao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 November 2019

This paper developed a multi-space prediction model for seasonal precipitation using a high-resolution grid dataset (0.5° × 0.5°) together with climate indices. The model is based on principal component analyses (PCA) and artificial neu...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,112 Views
16 Pages

12 July 2023

It is a challenge to improve the skill of seasonal precipitation prediction, because there are many factors affecting summer precipitation in China, which are found on different time scales and have complex interactions with each other. For these rea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impacts of East Asian Monsoon on Precipitation: Observation, Mechanism and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,891 Views
25 Pages

21 June 2016

The Upper Indus Basin (UIB) and the Karakoram Range are the subject of ongoing hydro-glaciological studies to investigate possible glacier mass balance shifts due to climatic change. Because of the high altitude and remote location, the Karakoram Ran...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Uncertainty Analysis and Modeling in Hydrological Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,906 Views
25 Pages

29 August 2022

Nowadays, a challenge in Climate Science is the seasonal forecast and knowledge of the model’s performance in different regions. The challenge in South America reflects its huge territory; some models present a good performance, and others do n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Extremes: Human-Environment Consequences and Adaptation Measures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,046 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2021

Multi-source meteorological data can reflect the development process of single meteorological elements from different angles. Making full use of multi-source meteorological data is an effective method to improve the performance of weather nowcasting....

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,068 Views
25 Pages

8 March 2021

It has become increasingly difficult in recent years to predict precipitation scientifically and accurately due to the dual effects of human activities and climatic conditions. This paper focuses on four aspects to improve precipitation prediction ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,150 Views
14 Pages

Decadal Prediction of the Summer Extreme Precipitation over Southern China

  • Huijie Wang,
  • Yanyan Huang,
  • Dapeng Zhang and
  • Huijun Wang

21 March 2023

The decadal variability of the summer extreme precipitation over southern China (EPSC) is remarkable, especially for the significant decadal enhancement after the 1990s. The study documented that the summer sea surface temperature (SST) over the Nort...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Long-Term Variability of Atmospheric Precipitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,253 Views
25 Pages

8 December 2023

Interactions between clouds, aerosol, and precipitation are crucial aspects of weather and climate. The simple Koren–Feingold conceptual model is important for providing deeper insight into the complex aerosol–cloud–precipitation sy...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerosols)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,287 Views
21 Pages

Previous studies suggested that spring precipitation over the tropical western Pacific Ocean can influence the development of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). To identify crucial precipitation patterns for post-spring ENSO evolution,...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,878 Views
19 Pages

Post-Processing Ensemble Precipitation Forecasts and Their Applications in Summer Streamflow Prediction over a Mountain River Basin

  • Yiheng Xiang,
  • Yanghe Liu,
  • Xiangxi Zou,
  • Tao Peng and ,
  • Zhiyuan Yin and
  • Yufeng Ren
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 November 2023

Ensemble precipitation forecasts (EPFs) can help to extend lead times and provide reliable probabilistic forecasts, which have been widely applied for streamflow predictions by driving hydrological models. Nonetheless, inherent biases and under-dispe...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,783 Views
25 Pages

20 October 2020

Droughts in southeastern Australia can profoundly affect the water supply to Sydney, Australia’s largest city. Increasing population, a warming climate, land surface changes and expanded agricultural use increase water demand and reduce catchme...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,757 Views
21 Pages

7 July 2025

Short-term precipitation forecasting is a core task in meteorological science, aiming to achieve accurate predictions by modeling the spatiotemporal evolution of radar echo sequences, thereby supporting meteorological services and disaster warning sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Remote Sensing Data in Data Assimilation, Reanalysis and Artificial Intelligence for Mesoscale Numerical Weather Models (Second Edition))
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,811 Views
6 Pages

The role of local (wind speed, potential evaporation, vapor pressure, air temperature, and precipitation amount) and regional parameters (teleconnection indices such as Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), Bivariate ENSO index (BEST), North Atlantic Oscillatio...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 5th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,201 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2019

The prediction of summer precipitation patterns (PPs) over eastern China is an important and topical issue in China. Predictors that are selected based on historical information may not be suitable for the future due to non-stationary relationships b...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,244 Views
15 Pages

Spatiotemporal Predictive Learning for Radar-Based Precipitation Nowcasting

  • Xiaoying Wang,
  • Haixiang Zhao,
  • Guojing Zhang,
  • Qin Guan and
  • Yu Zhu

31 July 2024

Based on C-band weather radar and ground precipitation data from the Helan Mountain area in Yinchuan between 2017 to 2020, we evaluated the forecasting performances of 15 mainstream deep learning models used in recent years, including recurrent-based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Algorithms for Weather Forecasting and Climate Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
713 Views
26 Pages

Research on Random Forest-Based Downscaling Inversion Techniques for Numerical Precipitation Prediction Guided by Integrated Physical Mechanisms

  • Haoshuang Liao,
  • Shengchu Zhang,
  • Jun Guo,
  • Qiukuan Zhou and ,
  • Xinyu Chang and
  • Xinyi Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 February 2026

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are essential for precipitation forecasting but are constrained by coarse spatial resolutions (10–50 km), which fail to capture fine-scale variations required for regional disaster prevention, particula...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,972 Views
18 Pages

MSSTNet: A Multi-Scale Spatiotemporal Prediction Neural Network for Precipitation Nowcasting

  • Yuankang Ye,
  • Feng Gao,
  • Wei Cheng,
  • Chang Liu and
  • Shaoqing Zhang

26 December 2022

Convolution-based recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks have been used extensively in spatiotemporal prediction. However, these methods tend to concentrate on fixed-scale spatiotemporal state transitions and disregard the comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,271 Views
20 Pages

Monthly Streamflow Prediction by Metaheuristic Regression Approaches Considering Satellite Precipitation Data

  • Mojtaba Mehraein,
  • Aadhityaa Mohanavelu,
  • Sujay Raghavendra Naganna,
  • Christoph Kulls and
  • Ozgur Kisi

11 November 2022

In this study, the viability of three metaheuristic regression techniques, CatBoost (CB), random forest (RF) and extreme gradient tree boosting (XGBoost, XGB), is investigated for the prediction of monthly streamflow considering satellite precipitati...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
653 Views
22 Pages

Precipitation Prediction and Factor Interpretation at Maqu Station in the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Based on XGBoost-SHAP

  • Dandan Zhao,
  • Shaoqing Zhang,
  • Guangjing Liu,
  • Xiaole Pan and ,
  • Tianyi Wang,
  • Huiyu Ding,
  • Wenjun Sang and
  • Yongjing Ma
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 June 2026

Accurate precipitation forecasting on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) remains a significant challenge due to complex terrain and nonlinear atmospheric dynamics. This study evaluates an XGBoost-SHAP framework for 24 h precipitation forecasting at Maqu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Big Data and Machine Learning in Hydrological Forecasting and Water Resource Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,211 Views
13 Pages

6 September 2023

Precipitation isoscapes have provided supporting data for numerous studies of water stable isotopes, alleviating the lack of observation data. However, the applicability of simulation data from global models to specific regional contexts remains a su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,696 Views
14 Pages

Revisiting the Dependence of Electrical Resistivity on Cu-Rich Precipitates in an Aged Fe-Cu Model Alloy: A Microstructure-Based Prediction Model

  • Shengjun Xia,
  • Menglin Gao,
  • Xing Hu,
  • Chunfa Huang and ,
  • Shuaiheng Liang,
  • Wenlu Zhang and
  • Qiulin Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 February 2025

Nanoscale Cu-rich precipitates (CRPs) play a crucial role in the irradiation embrittlement of reactor pressure vessels (RPVs), and binary Fe-Cu alloys serve as practical models to study the evolution of these precipitates. This study investigates the...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,802 Views
17 Pages

Modeling the Production Process of Lignin Nanoparticles Through Anti-Solvent Precipitation for Properties Prediction

  • Victor Girard,
  • Laurent Marchal-Heussler,
  • Hubert Chapuis,
  • Nicolas Brosse and ,
  • Nadia Canilho and
  • Isabelle Ziegler-Devin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 November 2024

Global warming has recently intensified research interest in renewable polymer chemistry, with significant attention directed towards lignin nanoparticle (LNP) synthesis. Despite progress, LNP industrial application faces challenges: (1) reliance on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Morphological Design and Synthesis of Nanoparticles (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,732 Views
18 Pages

5 August 2022

The number of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models is on the rise, and they are commonly used for ensemble precipitation forecast (EPF) and ensemble streamflow prediction (ESP). This study evaluated the reliabilities of two well-behaved NWP cent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Characterizing, Monitoring and Prediction of Hydrometeorological Extremes under Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,817 Views
21 Pages

The Strong Precipitation of the Dry Warm Front Cyclone in Syria and Its Prediction by Data Mining Modeling

  • Jianhong Wang,
  • Nour Alakol,
  • Xing Wang,
  • Dongpo He and ,
  • Kanike Raghavendra Kumar and
  • Chunsheng Miao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 December 2021

The Eastern inland of Syria has a Mediterranean climate in the north and a tropical desert climate in the south, which results in a dry south and wet north climate feature, especially in winter. The circulation dynamics analysis of 16 winter strong p...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,998 Views
25 Pages

1 February 2021

Accurate monitoring and forecasting of drought are crucial. They play a vital role in the optimal functioning of irrigation systems, risk management, drought readiness, and alleviation. In this work, Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, comprising Mu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Extremes: Human-Environment Consequences and Adaptation Measures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,392 Views
15 Pages

3 April 2025

The development of reliable predictive models for soil behavior represents a crucial advancement in geotechnical engineering, particularly for optimizing material compositions and reducing experimental uncertainties. Traditional experimental approach...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Physics and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,297 Views
21 Pages

26 July 2023

This research presents a blended system implemented by the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting to enhance the nowcasting and forecasting services of quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) of tropical cyclone (TC) landfal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precipitation Observations and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,976 Views
15 Pages

10 October 2022

Reduction of area (RA) measurement in a hot ductility test is widely used to define the susceptibility of surface crack of cast steel, but the test is complex because it entails processes such as specimen fabrication, heat treatment, tensile testing,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Continuous Casting and Hot Ductility of Advanced High-Strength Steels)

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