ML4WX

Sub-seasonal to seasonal

Transformer for EI Niño-Southern Oscillation Prediction

Feng Ye, Jie Hu, Tianqiang Huang, Lijun You, Bin Weng, Jianyun Gao

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ·

Paper

In one sentence. An ENSO Transformer (ENSOTR) predicts the Niño3.4 index skillfully up to 18 months ahead and outperforms CNN baselines, including the 1997–98 El Niño.

Labels

Topic
Sub-seasonal to seasonal
Type
New model or method
Method
Transformer / ViT
Time scale
Seasonal to annual, 2 weeks–2 months
Domain
Global
Data
CMIP / climate model output, ERA5 / reanalysis
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1109/lgrs.2021.3100485 OpenAlex:W3192029423
Added
2026-10-22

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