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Predicting Tropical Cyclogenesis Using a Deep Learning Method From Gridded Satellite and ERA5 Reanalysis Data in the Western North Pacific Basin

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This article proposes a deep learning model to predict tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) from gridded satellite and ERA5 reanalysis data in the western North Pacific basin. The proposed model contains two… Click to show full abstract

This article proposes a deep learning model to predict tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) from gridded satellite and ERA5 reanalysis data in the western North Pacific basin. The proposed model contains two modules. First, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based deep features are extracted for each predictor, and then, the extracted features are fused with two fully connected layers to differentiate and investigate the relationship between predictors and TCG. The experimental data of this study are composed of 3232 developing tropical cluster clouds and 6657 nondeveloping ones; 90% of the collected data are utilized to train the model, and the rest are used to evaluate the trained model. Totally, nine predictors have been considered for the study, and the results show that the brightness temperature (IR), relative vorticity (Vo), and geopotential height (Z) perform better than the other predictors. A combined model with six predictors [IR, Z, RH (relative humidity), Vo, WS10 m (wind speed at the height of ten meters above the surface of the Earth), and mslp (mean sea-level pressure)] achieves the best TCG predicting performance, i.e., 97.1% of developing tropical cyclones are detected at a probability threshold of 0.13 with a false alarm rate of 20.3%. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to the existing methods and also indicate that the fusion of satellite and reanalysis data is a promising method to predict TCG.

Keywords: reanalysis data; tropical cyclogenesis; deep learning; model; method

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Year Published: 2022

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