El Niño Index Prediction Based on Deep Learning with STL Decomposition
In one sentence. STL decomposition with temporal convolutional networks forecasts the Niño index over multiple steps, capturing ENSO trend and peak intensity for 1992–2022.
Abstract
ENSO is an important climate phenomenon that often causes widespread climate anomalies and triggers various meteorological disasters. Accurately predicting the ENSO variation trend is of great significance for global ecosystems and socio-economic aspects. In scientific practice, researchers predominantly employ associated indices, such as Niño 3.4, to quantitatively characterize the onset, intensity, duration, and type of ENSO events. In this study, we propose the STL-TCN model, which combines seasonal-trend decomposition using locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOESS) (STL) and temporal convolutional networks (TCN). This method uses STL to decompose the original time series into trend, seasonal, and residual components. Each subsequence is then individually predicted by different TCN models for multi-step forecasting, and the predictions from all models are combined to obtain the final result. During the verification period from 1992 to 2022, the STL-TCN model effectively captures index features and improves the accuracy of multi-step forecasting. In historical event simulation experiments, the model demonstrates advantages in capturing the trend and peak intensity of ENSO events.
Labels
- Topic
- Sub-seasonal to seasonal
- Type
- New model or method
- Method
- CNN / U-Net
- Time scale
- Seasonal to annual
- Domain
- Global
- Data
- Other
- Status
- Research
- Identifiers
- DOI:10.3390/jmse11081529 OpenAlex:W4385429653
- Added
- 2026-10-22
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