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Using Deep Learning to Nowcast the Spatial Coverage of Convection from Himawari-8 Satellite Data

Ryan Lagerquist, Jebb Q. Stewart, Imme Ebert‐Uphoff, Christina Bonfanti

Monthly Weather Review ·

Paper

In one sentence. U-Nets forecast convection coverage from Himawari-8 brightness temperatures up to 120 minutes, beating persistence at lead times of 60 minutes and beyond.

Labels

Topic
Nowcasting, Observations & remote sensing
Type
New model or method
Method
CNN / U-Net
Time scale
0–6 h
Domain
Regional
Data
Satellite, Radar
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/mwr-d-21-0096.1 OpenAlex:W3202041678
Added
2026-10-22

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