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Nowcasting

Preformer: Simple and Efficient Design for Precipitation Nowcasting With Transformers

Qizhao Jin, Xinbang Zhang, Xinyu Xiao, Ying Wang, Shiming Xiang, Chunhong Pan

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ·

Paper

In one sentence. Preformer, a streamlined transformer with encoder-translator-decoder design, achieves state-of-the-art precipitation nowcasting with the fewest parameters among compared models.

Labels

Topic
Nowcasting
Type
New model or method
Method
Transformer / ViT
Time scale
0–6 h
Domain
Regional
Data
Radar
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1109/lgrs.2023.3325628 OpenAlex:W4387789870
Added
2026-10-22

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