用神经网络动态预测台风路径误差,提升预报精度与可靠性。
Predicting Tropical Cyclone Track Forecast Errors using a Probabilistic Neural Network
- 构建概率神经网络,输出双变量正态分布以量化路径不确定性
- 预测结果经多指标验证,校准度优于当前NHC静态方法
- 可生成登陆概率等概率化结论,适合气象业务与灾害评估
本文提出一种新的热带气旋路径不确定性估计方法,采用神经网络预测双变量正态分布,作为路径不确定性的估计。该方法在国家飓风中心(NHC)的预报数据上进行训练和测试,目前NHC多采用过去五年历史预报的静态误差分布。所提方法生成的不确定性估计具有动态性和概率性,且能提供包括登陆概率在内的概率化轨迹分析。通过多种指标验证,结果表明该方法预测具有良好校准性,其不确定性估计性能优于现有NHC方法,且达到全球集合预报系统(GEFS)水平。模型训练完成后,预测计算成本可忽略不计,具备显著应用潜力,是改进NHC业务路径不确定性估计的有力候选方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
A new method for estimating tropical cyclone track uncertainty is presented and tested. This method uses a neural network to predict a bivariate normal distribution, which serves as an estimate for track uncertainty. We train the network and make predictions on forecasts from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), which currently uses static error distributions based on forecasts from the past five years for most applications. The neural network-based method produces uncertainty estimates that are dynamic and probabilistic. Further, the neural network-based method allows for probabilistic statements about tropical cyclone trajectories, including landfall probability, which we highlight. We show that our predictions are well calibrated using multiple metrics, that our method produces better uncertainty estimates than current NHC approaches, and that our method achieves similar performance to the Global Ensemble Forecast System. Once trained, the computational cost of predictions using this method is negligible, making it a strong candidate to improve the NHC's operational estimations of tropical cyclone track uncertainty.
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