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★ FuXi Weather: A data-to-forecast machine learning system for global weather

Xiuyu Sun, Xiaohui Zhong, Xiaoze Xu et al. · Nature Communications ·

FuXi Weather is an ML system that assimilates multi-satellite observations and produces 10-day global forecasts, outperforming ECMWF HRES in observation-sparse regions like central Africa.

Data assimilationChina Meteorological Administration (CMA)Fudan University (FuXi)Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)Tsinghua University (NowcastNet)University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

DSRSS-Net: Improved-Resolution Snow Cover Mapping from FY-4A Satellite Images Using the Dual-Branch Super-Resolution Semantic Segmentation Network

Xi Kan, Zhengsong Lu, Yonghong Zhang et al. · Remote Sensing ·

DSRSS-Net jointly super-resolves and segments FY-4A imagery for snow-cover mapping on the Tibetan Plateau, improving classification accuracy by 4.45% over MOD10A1.

Observations & remote sensingNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Recent advances in seasonal and multi-annual tropical cyclone forecasting

Yuhei Takaya, Louis‐Philippe Caron, Eric S. Blake et al. · Tropical Cyclone Research and Review ·

Reviews seasonal and multi-annual tropical cyclone forecasting, including emerging ML/AI methods, ENSO-neutral predictability and landfall skill gaps relative to user needs.

Sub-seasonal to seasonalNOAA (incl. GFDL, PSL, GSL, NCEP/EMC)NSF NCAR / UCARMet OfficeMétéo-France (incl. CNRM)Colorado State University (incl. CIRA)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)

Enhancing Spatial Variability Representation of Radar Nowcasting with Generative Adversarial Networks

Aofan Gong, Ruidong Li, Baoxiang Pan et al. · Remote Sensing ·

Attentional GAN with a spatial variability loss reduces the blurry effect in radar nowcasts and outperforms competing models on the test set and storm cases.

NowcastingTsinghua University (NowcastNet)Colorado State University (incl. CIRA)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesChina Meteorological Administration (CMA)

A Deep‐Learning Ensemble Method to Detect Atmospheric Rivers and Its Application to Projected Changes in Precipitation Regime

Yuan Tian, Yang Zhao, Seok‐Woo Son et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·

An ensemble of 20 segmentation networks detects atmospheric rivers with 1.7–10.1% higher IoU; CMIP6 projections show AR-driven extreme precipitation rising under SSP5-8.5.

Extremes & hazardsNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Retrieval of Atmospheric Water Vapor Content in the Environment from AHI/H8 Using Both Physical and Random Forest Methods—A Case Study for Typhoon Maria (201808)

Linyan Zhu, Ronglian Zhou, Di Di et al. · Remote Sensing ·

Random forest retrieves Himawari-8 AHI water vapor 35–45% more accurately than 1DVAR at much lower cost, demonstrated for Typhoon Maria.

Observations & remote sensingNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Toward a Deep-Learning-Network-Based Convective Weather Initiation Algorithm From the Joint Observations of Fengyun-4A Geostationary Satellite and Radar for 0–1h Nowcasting

Fenglin Sun, Bo Li, Min Min et al. · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·

CWNNet, a ConvRNN fusing Fengyun-4A satellite and radar inputs, predicts 0-1 h reflectivity and convective initiation, outperforming single-source models (POD 0.87 at 1 h).

NowcastingChina Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Statistical Downscaling of Temperature Distributions in Southwest China by Using Terrain-Guided Attention Network

Guangyu Liu, Rui Zhang, Renlong Hang et al. · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·

Terrain-guided attention CNN downscales 2 m air temperature from 0.0625° to 0.01° over Southwest China, reaching 1.12 °C RMSE using DEM attention blocks.

Downscaling & super-resolutionNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

An Objective Quality Control of Surface Contamination Observations for ABI Water Vapor Radiance Assimilation

Zhenglong Li, Zheng Ma, Pei Wang et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·

Machine-learning quality control for ABI water vapor radiances blends seven bands to reject surface-contaminated pixels, improving Hurricane Harvey track forecasts.

Observations & remote sensingNOAA (incl. GFDL, PSL, GSL, NCEP/EMC)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesChina Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Improving the Forecasting of Winter Wheat Yields in Northern China with Machine Learning–Dynamical Hybrid Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Ensemble Prediction

Junjun Cao, Huijing Wang, Jinxiao Li et al. · Remote Sensing ·

Hybrid XGBoost models using S2S dynamical forecasts predict northern China winter wheat yield 3–4 months ahead with R² 0.85, beating observed climate inputs.

Applications & impactsInstitute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesChina Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Deep Learning for Polarimetric Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation during Landfalling Typhoons in South China

Yonghua Zhang, Shuoben Bi, Liping Liu et al. · Remote Sensing ·

QPENet deep learning on dual-polarization radar, trained on 11 typhoons, beats DSD-based parametric QPE for rainfall estimation in South China.

Observations & remote sensingNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)Colorado State University (incl. CIRA)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Application of a Radar Echo Extrapolation‐Based Deep Learning Method in Strong Convection Nowcasting

Jian Yin, Zhiqiu Gao, Wei Han · Earth and Space Science ·

Trains ConvGRU radar echo extrapolation with SSIM and MS-SSIM losses to reduce blurring; MS-SSIM gives the most realistic strong-echo forecasts out to 2 hours.

NowcastingNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesChina Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Estimating the Key Parameter of a Tropical Cyclone Wind Field Model over the Northwest Pacific Ocean: A Comparison between Neural Networks and Statistical Models

Ziyao Sun, Biao Zhang, Jie Tang · Remote Sensing ·

Backpropagation neural network estimates the Holland B wind-field parameter for Northwest Pacific typhoons from pressure difference, improving super-typhoon wind speed estimates over statistical models.

Extremes & hazardsNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Estimating Summertime Precipitation from Himawari-8 and Global Forecast System Based on Machine Learning

Min Min, Chen Bai, Jianping Guo et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·

Random forest estimates summertime precipitation from Himawari-8 infrared brightness temperatures plus GFS predictors, reaching 0.87 classification accuracy and 2.0 mm/h RMSE against GPM.

Observations & remote sensingNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)China Meteorological Administration (CMA)