Evaluation, Tuning and Interpretation of Neural Networks for Meteorological Applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03126v1
• Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 20:46:10 GMT
• Title: Evaluation, Tuning and Interpretation of Neural Networks for Meteorological Applications
• Authors: Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Kyle A. Hilburn
• Abstract summary: Neural networks have opened up many new opportunities to utilize remotely sensed images in meteorology. Common applications include image classification, e.g., to determine whether an image contains a tropical cyclone, and image translation, e.g., to emulate radar imagery for satellites that only have passive channels. This article highlights several strategies and practical considerations for neural network development that have not yet received much attention in the meteorological community.
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• Abstract: Neural networks have opened up many new opportunities to utilize remotely sensed images in meteorology. Common applications include image classification, e.g., to determine whether an image contains a tropical cyclone, and image translation, e.g., to emulate radar imagery for satellites that only have passive channels. However, there are yet many open questions regarding the use of neural networks in meteorology, such as best practices for evaluation, tuning and interpretation. This article highlights several strategies and practical considerations for neural network development that have not yet received much attention in the meteorological community, such as the concept of effective receptive fields, underutilized meteorological performance measures, and methods for NN interpretation, such as synthetic experiments and layer-wise relevance propagation. We also consider the process of neural network interpretation as a whole, recognizing it as an iterative scientist-driven discovery process, and breaking it down into individual steps that researchers can take. Finally, while most work on neural network interpretation in meteorology has so far focused on networks for image classification tasks, we expand the focus to also include networks for image translation.

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