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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)

★ FengWu: Pushing the Skillful Global Medium-range Weather Forecast beyond 10 Days Lead

Kang Chen, Tao Han, Junchao Gong et al. · Commun. Earth Environ. 6, 518 (2025) ·

FengWu is a multi-modal transformer forecasting system that extends skillful forecasts to 10.75 days, beating GraphCast on 80% of 880 predictands.

Global medium-range NWPInstitute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Prediction of ENSO using multivariable deep learning

Yue Chen, Xiaomeng Huang, Jing‐Jia Luo et al. · Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters ·

A residual network with automatically selected precursors predicts ENSO up to 8 months ahead, with a 6-month correlation of 0.82 beating the multi-model mean of 0.70.

Sub-seasonal to seasonalTsinghua University (NowcastNet)Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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)

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)

Improving the Accuracy of Subseasonal Forecasting of China Precipitation With a Machine Learning Approach

Cen Wang, Zhaoying Jia, Zhaohui Yin et al. · Frontiers in Earth Science ·

Multitask local linear regression predicts China precipitation 2–6 weeks ahead with skill 0.11, rising to 0.13 when the Arctic Oscillation index is added.

Sub-seasonal to seasonalNanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesBaidu