FusionCast: Enhancing Precipitation Nowcasting with Asymmetric Cross-Modal Fusion and Future Radar Priors
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| author | Wang, Henan Xiong, Shengwu Zhang, Yifang Yin, Wenjie Zhou, Chen Zhang, Yuqiang Duan, Pengfei |
| author_facet | Wang, Henan Xiong, Shengwu Zhang, Yifang Yin, Wenjie Zhou, Chen Zhang, Yuqiang Duan, Pengfei |
| contents | Deep learning has significantly improved the accuracy of precipitation nowcasting. However, most existing multimodal models typically use simple channel concatenation or interpolation methods for data fusion, which often overlook the feature differences between different modalities. This paper therefore proposes a novel precipitation nowcasting optimisation framework called FusionCast. This framework incorporates three types of data: historical precipitable water vapour (PWV) data derived from global navigation satellite system (GNSS) inversions, historical radar based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE), and forecasted radar QPE serving as a future prior. The FusionCast model comprises two core modules: the future prior radar QPE processing Module, which forecasts future radar data; and the Radar PWV Fusion (RPF) module, which uses a gate mechanism to efficiently combine features from various sources. Experimental results show that FusionCast significantly improves nowcasting performance. |
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| spellingShingle | FusionCast: Enhancing Precipitation Nowcasting with Asymmetric Cross-Modal Fusion and Future Radar Priors Wang, Henan Xiong, Shengwu Zhang, Yifang Yin, Wenjie Zhou, Chen Zhang, Yuqiang Duan, Pengfei Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Deep learning has significantly improved the accuracy of precipitation nowcasting. However, most existing multimodal models typically use simple channel concatenation or interpolation methods for data fusion, which often overlook the feature differences between different modalities. This paper therefore proposes a novel precipitation nowcasting optimisation framework called FusionCast. This framework incorporates three types of data: historical precipitable water vapour (PWV) data derived from global navigation satellite system (GNSS) inversions, historical radar based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE), and forecasted radar QPE serving as a future prior. The FusionCast model comprises two core modules: the future prior radar QPE processing Module, which forecasts future radar data; and the Radar PWV Fusion (RPF) module, which uses a gate mechanism to efficiently combine features from various sources. Experimental results show that FusionCast significantly improves nowcasting performance. |
| title | FusionCast: Enhancing Precipitation Nowcasting with Asymmetric Cross-Modal Fusion and Future Radar Priors |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13298 |