1Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210041, China
2Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
3Jiangsu Meteorological Observatory, Nanjing 210041, China
These authors contributed equally to this work.
1Key Laboratory of Transportation Meteorology of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing 210041, China
2Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
3Jiangsu Meteorological Observatory, Nanjing 210041, China
Received: 10 Nov 2022 – Discussion started: 09 Jan 2023
Abstract. Convective wind gusts (CGs) are usually related to thunderstorms, and they may cause great structural damage and serious hazards, such as train derailment, service interruption, and building collapse. Due to the small-scale and nonstationary nature of CGs, reliable CGs nowcasting with high spatial and temporal resolutions has remained unattainable. In this study, a novel nowcasting model based on deep learning – namely, CGsNet – is developed for 0–2 h of quantitative CGs nowcasting, first achieving minute-kilometer-level forecasts. CGsNet is a physics-constrained model established by training on large corpora of average surface wind speed (ASWS) and radar observations, it can produce realistic and spatiotemporally consistent ASWS predictions in CGs events. By combining the gust factor (1.77, the ratio of the observed peak wind gust speed (PWGS) to the ASWS) with the ASWS predictions, the PWGS forecasts are estimated with a spatial resolution of 0.01° × 0.01° and a 6-minute temporal resolution. CGsNet is shown to be effective, and it has an essential advantage in learning the spatiotemporal features of CGs. In addition, quantitative evaluation experiments indicate that CGsNet exhibits higher generalization performance for CGs than the traditional nowcasting method based on numerical weather prediction models. CGs nowcasting technology can be applied to provide real-time quantitative CGs forecasts and alerts the damaging wind events in meteorological services.
Convective Gusts Datasets( radar reflectivity and wind observations)Haixia Xiao, Yaqiang Wang, Yu Zheng, Yuanyuan Zheng, Xiaoran Zhuang, Hongyan Wang, and Mei Gao https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PIZU7V
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The code of CGsNet modelHaixia Xiao, Yaqiang Wang, Yu Zheng, Yuanyuan Zheng, Xiaoran Zhuang, Hongyan Wang, and Mei Gao https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PIZU7V
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Due to the small-scale and nonstationary nature of convective wind gusts (CGs), reliable CGs nowcasting has remained unattainable. Here, we developed a deep learning model – namely CGsNet – for 0–2 hours of quantitative CGs nowcasting, first achieving minute-kilometer-level forecasts. Based on CGsNet model, the average surface wind speed (ASWS) and peak wind gust speed (PWGS) predictions are obtained. Experiments indicate that CGsNet exhibits higher accuracy than the traditional method.
Due to the small-scale and nonstationary nature of convective wind gusts (CGs), reliable CGs...