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Observations & remote sensing

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

Min Min, Chen Bai, Jianping Guo, Fenglin Sun, Chao Liu, Fu Wang, Hui Xu, Shihao Tang, Bo Li, Di Di, Lixin Dong, Jun Li

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · · Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

Paper

In one sentence. 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.

Labels

Topic
Observations & remote sensing
Type
New model or method
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Domain
Regional
Data
Satellite, NWP analysis or forecasts (IFS, GFS, ...)
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1109/tgrs.2018.2874950 OpenAlex:W2900303043
Added
2026-10-22

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