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A Neural Network PMW/IR Combined Procedure for Short Term/Small Area Rainfall Estimates
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A Neural Network PMW/IR Combined Procedure
for Short Term/Small Area
Rainfall Estimates
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University of L’Aquila,Italy
University of Birmingham,UK
Francisco J. Tapiador & Chris Kidd
University of Birmingham, UK
Vincenzo Levizzani
National Council of Research, Italy
Frank S. Marzano
University of L’Aquila, Italy
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• Objectives of today’s presentation1. Present a methodology of data fusion of IR and PMW data at global scale:
• Short term, large coverage and high resolution rainfall estimates• Methodology to be applied to MSG (soon) and GPM products
2. Assess the quality of these estimates: • Intercomparison / Validation: HM method• Down-top approach
3. Present further research and operative products schedule
• Scheme:– Some comments on Neural Nets– Histogram matching– Validation / Intercomparison case study:
• Andalusia, Spain: 3 months of 30 minutes rain gauge data for validation
– Global research products• Global IR – derived estimates• METEOSAT - derived estimates
– Further work in this line
Outline Highlights Neural Nets Case Study Products Future work
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• Highlights
– Why fuse PMW and IR?• Direct response vs indirect relationship• “Bad” spatial and temporal resolutions vs geostationary capabilities• Re-inforce the strengths and avoid the weaknesses
– Inputs processing• IR data from the Global IR database (Janowiak et al 2001) and EUMETSAT archive• PMW Rainfall retrieval based upon Kidd&Barrett SSM/I algorithm:
– V19-V85 or H19-H85 combination over ocean and over land– Polarization Corrected Temperatures (PCT) over coast
• Gauge processing: point to area estimates using maximum entropy interpolation• Histogram matching and GPI calculation for inter-comparison
– Neural nets Inputs selection Model selection Inversion procedures
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Neural Networks
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• Neural Networks• NN works fairy well in rainfall estimation
– Operative system: PERSIANN (Sooroshian et al 2000)– Bellerby et al. 2000, etc.
• Neural Nets are not black-boxes– It is possible to make an objective NN selection (Murata et al 1994)– There are inversion procedures to investigate inside – They allow both deterministic and probabilistic approach
• Some advantages over other methods – Any function (Dirichlet’s, not pathological function) can be
approximate with an arbitrary degree of accuracy with a NN: Universal Aproximator.
– An easy method to simulate complex physical models in a quick (operative) way.
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• Input selection
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Correlations for some simple models
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• Several NN architectures Hopfield nets
SOM (cloud characterization)+(GOES data)
Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)
Adaptative Resonance Theory Nets (Grossberg 1969, Carpenter et al 1997) ART1 and ART2
ARTMAP
Distributed ARTMAP
Fuzzy ARTMAP (including a voting procedure (ref))
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• Model selection: Results
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• Model selection into MLP• Calculate (not guess) the number of neurons in the hidden layer• Network information criterion (NIC) (Murata et al. 1994)
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• This allow a conscious design of the net based on Information Theory results
Highlights
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• Research after training: model inversion
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• What kind of inputs generate an output?: insight into precipitation processes at IR-focus
Highlights
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Histogram Matching
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Validation
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• Case study data:– Global IR (Meteosat 5)
– DMSP SSM/I – 30 min gauge validation data
• Resolutions:– Spatial: 4
Km– Temporal: 30 min
• Coverage:– Andalusia (Spain)– Oct-Dec 2001
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• Methodology
Highlights
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• What means “field truth” in satellite estimates validation?– Point estimates: more close to the truth AGL– Areal interpolations: encompassing errors and odd effects
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Maximum Entropy InterpolationThe (theoretically) less-biased interpolation method available: an appropriate base to compare
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• Results: Skill Scores
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• Coincident data histogram comparison (October 2001)
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• 0.1º Accumulated results
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• 0.5º / 3 month accumulated data
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• 0.5º accumulated results
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• Grid size, averaging periods and correlations (Turk et. al 2002)
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Global Coverage
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• Global-IR coverage (HM)
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• Meteosat coverage (NN)
• Product to be validated using land-GPCC or other dataset
• Oriented to MSG: we are ready to apply this methodology
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GOES-E 14:32 GOES-E 15:45Trajectories
SSM/I F14 14:30 SSM/I F15 15:44IR temperature along trajectory
•Wind (CMW?) trajectories found by 19x19 correlation matching over 19x19 region. •SSM/I rain then advected along trajectories and adjusted by dIR and tied at end points
•IR/PMW Advection Scheme
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• Subscenes:
- Guinea Gulf- GIS integration
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• Future operational applications
• QPE / QPF: • SSM/I estimates improve the forecasting (Hou et al 2002) • We can simulate SSM/I
• Agriculture• Hydrology• Natural Hazards
But only when the product become operative and better results will be obtained
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• Future research work: MSG and GPM
• Radar data for validation/calibration• Operativity of the global coverage products: intercomparison• Integration in forecasting models: RAMS
• Use of MSG channels:• More information means more discrimination capabilities• Bidirectional reflectance model
• GPM and EGPM addressing
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• Conclusions
• Accumulated areal estimates at 0.1º and 0.5º at monthly scale are similar to other works, but the down-top approach allow to know about small scale and short term estimates.• There is an almost-operative product to analyse and to improve with further research.• There are many reseach directions in NN data fusion to follow:
• Inversion• New methods (probabilistic nets)• Integration of other models
• Other physical models can be integrated into the NN methodology.• Any meteorological information can be integrated without major modifications• Complex models can be speed up simulating the result using NN
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