Title
Convolutional LSTM Network: A Machine Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcasting
Abstract
The goal of precipitation nowcasting is to predict the future rainfall intensity in a local region over a relatively short period of time. Very few previous studies have examined this crucial and challenging weather forecasting problem from the machine learning perspective. In this paper, we formulate precipitation nowcasting as a spatiotemporal sequence forecasting problem in which both the input and the prediction target are spatiotemporal sequences. By extending the fully connected LSTM (FC-LSTM) to have convolutional structures in both the input-to-state and state-to-state transitions, we propose the convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM) and use it to build an end-to-end trainable model for the precipitation nowcasting problem. Experiments show that our ConvLSTM network captures spatiotemporal correlations better and consistently outperforms FC-LSTM and the state-of-the-art operational ROVER algorithm for precipitation nowcasting.
Year
Venue
DocType
2015
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 28 (NIPS 2015)
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
28
1049-5258
201
PageRank 
References 
Authors
6.32
12
6
Search Limit
100201
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xingjian Shi131014.62
Zhourong Chen222812.22
Hao Wang369632.07
Dit-Yan Yeung45302277.04
Wong, Wai-kin52157.29
WOO, Wang-chun62156.95