Title
Deep Learning-Based Weather Prediction: A Survey
Abstract
Weather forecasting plays a fundamental role in the early warning of weather impacts on various aspects of human livelihood. For instance, weather forecasting provides decision making support for autonomous vehicles to reduce traffic accidents and congestions, which completely depend on the sensing and predicting of external environmental factors such as rainfall, air visibility and so on. Accurate and timely weather prediction has always been the goal of meteorological scientists. However, the conventional theory-driven numerical weather prediction (NWP) methods face many challenges, such as incomplete understanding of physical mechanisms, difficulties in obtaining useful knowledge from the deluge of observation data, and the requirement of powerful computing resources. With the successful application of data-driven deep learning method in various fields, such as computer vision, speech recognition, and time series prediction, it has been proven that deep learning method can effectively mine the temporal and spatial features from the spatio-temporal data. Meteorological data is a typical big geospatial data. Deep learning-based weather prediction (DLWP) is expected to be a strong supplement to the conventional method. At present, many researchers have tried to introduce data-driven deep learning into weather forecasting, and have achieved some preliminary results. In this paper, we survey the stateof-the-art studies of deep learning-based weather forecasting, in the aspects of the design of neural network (NN) architectures, spatial and temporal scales, as well as the datasets and benchmarks. Then we analyze the advantages and disadvantages of DLWP by comparing it with the conventional NWP, and summarize the potential future research topics of DLWP. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.bdr.2020.100178
BIG DATA RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Deep learning, Big meteorological data, Weather forecasting, Spatio-temporal feature, Time series
Journal
23
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2214-5796
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoli Ren101.35
Xiaoyong Li2486.75
Kaijun Ren313223.89
Junqiang Song418526.86
Zichen Xu500.34
Kefeng Deng600.34
Xiang Wang74511.30