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Observations & remote sensing

Precipitation Vertical Structure Characterization: A Feature-Based Approach

Malarvizhi Arulraj, Veljko Petković, Ralph R. Ferraro, Huan Meng

Journal of Hydrometeorology · · NOAA (incl. GFDL, PSL, GSL, NCEP/EMC)

Paper

In one sentence. Convolutional autoencoders with clustering classify 3D MRMS radar reflectivity profiles into 18 precipitation-structure clusters linked to HRRR environmental conditions.

Labels

Topic
Observations & remote sensing
Type
New model or method
Method
CNN / U-Net, Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Domain
Regional
Data
Radar, NWP analysis or forecasts (IFS, GFS, ...)
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/jhm-d-23-0034.1 OpenAlex:W4386307996
Added
2026-10-22

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