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GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
卷 12, 期 4, 页码 1387-1402出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-1387-2019
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- Geo.X, the Research Network for Geosciences in Berlin and Potsdam
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
- Open Access Publication Fund of Potsdam University
Quantitative precipitation nowcasting (QPN) has become an essential technique in various application contexts, such as early warning or urban sewage control. A common heuristic prediction approach is to track the motion of precipitation features from a sequence of weather radar images and then to displace the precipitation field to the imminent future (minutes to hours) based on that motion, assuming that the intensity of the features remains constant (Lagrangian persistence). In that context, optical flow has become one of the most popular tracking techniques. Yet the present landscape of computational QPN models still struggles with producing open software implementations. Focusing on this gap, we have developed and extensively benchmarked a stack of models based on different optical flow algorithms for the tracking step and a set of parsimonious extrapolation procedures based on image warping and advection. We demonstrate that these models provide skillful predictions comparable with or even superior to state-of-the-art operational software. Our software library (rainymotion) for precipitation nowcasting is written in the Python programming language and openly available at GitHub (https: //github.com/hydrogo/rainymotion, Ayzel et al., 2019). That way, the library may serve as a tool for providing fast, free, and transparent solutions that could serve as a benchmark for further model development and hypothesis testing - a benchmark that is far more advanced than the conventional benchmark of Eulerian persistence commonly used in QPN verification experiments.
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