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Local & station forecasting

Visibility Analysis and Time Series Forecasting

Asoke Nath, Swapnil Saha, Himashri Basu, Shalini Torcato

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ·

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In one sentence. XGBoost, ARIMA and LSTM models forecast atmospheric visibility from station time series, with outputs reported as close to observed values.

Abstract

Visibility prediction and time series forecasting are two important fields in the domain of data analysis and machine learning. Visibility prediction deals with the estimation of atmospheric visibility or the distance over which objects can be clearly seen in a particular location, while time series forecasting involves predicting future values based on historical data. Both these fields have a wide range of applications, including transportation safety, air quality monitoring, and renewable energy management. However, the current prediction of visibility is mostly based on the numerical prediction method similar to the weather prediction [1]. In the present study the authors proposed a method using XGBoost(Extreme Gradient Boosting) and Unsupervised Models(ARIMA, ARMA, LSTM) models to build a weather visibility prediction system. The results obtained were very close to actual dataset.

Labels

Topic
Local & station forecasting
Type
New model or method
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels), RNN / LSTM / ConvLSTM
Time scale
6 h–3 days
Domain
Local / station
Data
Station / in-situ
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.32628/cseit2390321 OpenAlex:W4381052206
Added
2026-10-22

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