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SmaAt-UNet: Precipitation Nowcasting using a Small Attention-UNet Architecture

arXiv 2007.04417 ↗First posted 8 Jul 2020cs.LG eess.IVcited by 71

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Weather forecasting is dominated by numerical weather prediction that tries to model accurately the physical properties of the atmosphere. A downside of numerical weather prediction is that it is lacking the ability for short-term forecasts using the latest available information. By using a data-driven neural network approach we show that it is possible to produce an accurate precipitation nowcast. To this end, we propose SmaAt-UNet, an efficient convolutional neural networks-based on the well known UNet architecture equipped with attention modules and depthwise-separable convolutions. We evaluate our approaches on a real-life datasets using precipitation maps from the region of the Netherlands and binary images of cloud coverage of France. The experimental results show that in terms of prediction performance, the proposed model is comparable to other examined models while only using a quarter of the trainable parameters.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 11; 2022: 12; 2023: 11; 2024: 13; 2025: 8; 2026: 16.

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  1. 2021Skillful Precipitation Nowcasting using Deep Generative Models of Radarcited by 308
  2. 2021Broad-UNet: Multi-scale feature learning for nowcasting taskscited by 25
  3. 2022AA-TransUNet: Attention Augmented TransUNet For Nowcasting Taskscited by 22
  4. 2023Precipitation nowcasting with generative diffusion modelscited by 22
  5. 2021Skillful Twelve Hour Precipitation Forecasts using Large Context Neural Networkscited by 20
  6. 2021Symbolic regression for scientific discovery: an application to wind speed forecastingcited by 16
  7. 2024Fourier Amplitude and Correlation Loss: Beyond Using L2 Loss for Skillful Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 16
  8. 2024Deep learning for precipitation nowcasting: A survey from the perspective of time series forecastingcited by 14
  9. 2021Multistream Graph Attention Networks for Wind Speed Forecastingcited by 12
  10. 2023Deterministic Guidance Diffusion Model for Probabilistic Weather Forecastingcited by 9
  11. 2024GA-SmaAt-GNet: Generative Adversarial Small Attention GNet for Extreme Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 9
  12. 2021TENT: Tensorized Encoder Transformer for Temperature Forecastingcited by 7
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  1. 2024Graph Dual-stream Convolutional Attention Fusion for Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 7
  2. 2023SAR-UNet: Small Attention Residual UNet for Explainable Nowcasting Taskscited by 6
  3. 2024Extreme Precipitation Nowcasting using Transformer-based Generative Modelscited by 6
  4. 2024Precipitation Nowcasting Using Diffusion Transformer with Causal Attentioncited by 6
  5. 2025WaveC2R: Wavelet-Driven Coarse-to-Refined Hierarchical Learning for Radar Retrievalcited by 6
  6. 2022Application of belief functions to medical image segmentation: A reviewcited by 4
  7. 2022PCT-CycleGAN: Paired Complementary Temporal Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks for Radar-Based Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 4
  8. 2022FedUKD: Federated UNet Model with Knowledge Distillation for Land Use Classification from Satellite and Street Viewscited by 4
  9. 2024Two-stage Rainfall-Forecasting Diffusion Modelcited by 4
  10. 2022RainUNet for Super-Resolution Rain Movie Prediction under Spatio-temporal Shiftscited by 3
  11. 2023Inductive biases in deep learning models for weather predictioncited by 3
  12. 2024Extreme Precipitation Nowcasting using Multi-Task Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 3
  13. 2021RAP-Net: Region Attention Predictive Network for Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 2
  14. 2023WF-UNet: Weather Fusion UNet for Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 2
  15. 2025SSA-UNet: Advanced Precipitation Nowcasting via Channel Shufflingcited by 2
  16. 2025RainPro-8: An Efficient Deep Learning Model to Estimate Rainfall Probabilities Over 8 Hourscited by 2
  17. 2026Probabilistic Precipitation Nowcasting with Rectified Flow Transformerscited by 2
  18. 2021Accurate and Clear Precipitation Nowcasting with Consecutive Attention and Rain-map Discriminationcited by 1
  19. 2021PTCT: Patches with 3D-Temporal Convolutional Transformer Network for Precipitation Nowcastingcited by 1
  20. 2021Efficient spatio-temporal weather forecasting using U-Netcited by 1
  21. 2022Exploring Randomly Wired Neural Networks for Climate Model Emulationcited by 1
  22. 2023Global Precipitation Nowcasting of Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM: A U-Net Convolutional LSTM Architecturecited by 1
  23. 2023RainAI -- Precipitation Nowcasting from Satellite Datacited by 1
  24. 2023TransCORALNet: A Two-Stream Transformer CORAL Networks for Supply Chain Credit Assessment Cold Startcited by 1
  25. 2024RNDiff: Rainfall nowcasting with Condition Diffusion Modelcited by 1
  26. 2024Four-hour thunderstorm nowcasting using a deep diffusion model of satellite datacited by 1
  27. 2025Knowledge-Guided Adaptive Mixture of Experts for Precipitation Predictioncited by 1
  28. 2021GSECnet: Ground Segmentation of Point Clouds for Edge Computingcited by 0
  29. 2022Precipitaion Nowcasting using Deep Neural Networkcited by 0
  30. 2022MMINR: Multi-frame-to-Multi-frame Inference with Noise Resistance for Precipitation Nowcasting with Radarcited by 0
  31. 2022Attention Augmented ConvNeXt UNet For Rectal Tumour Segmentationcited by 0
  32. 2022Artificial Intelligence and Innovation to Reduce the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Sustainable Productioncited by 0
  33. 2022Tools for Extracting Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Meteorological Image Sequences: From Feature Engineering to Attention-Based Neural Networkscited by 0
  34. 2022MS-DCANet: A Novel Segmentation Network For Multi-Modality COVID-19 Medical Imagescited by 0
  35. 2023Climate Intervention Analysis using AI Model Guided by Statistical Physics Principlescited by 0
  36. 2023Deep Vision in Analysis and Recognition of Radar Data: Achievements, Advancements and Challengescited by 0
  37. 2023Efficient Baseline for Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Weather4cast 2023cited by 0
  38. 2024Data-Driven Uncertainty-Aware Forecasting of Sea Ice Conditions in the Gulf of Ob Based on Satellite Radar Imagerycited by 0

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