On the modern deep learning approaches for precipitation downscaling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00808v1
• Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2022 11:57:39 GMT
• Title: On the modern deep learning approaches for precipitation downscaling
• Authors: Bipin Kumar, Kaustubh Atey, Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Rajib Chattopadhyay, Nachiket Acharya, Manmeet Singh, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, and Suryachandra A. Rao
• Abstract summary: We carry out the DL-based downscaling to estimate the local precipitation data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) To test the efficacy of different DL approaches, we apply four different methods of downscaling and evaluate their performance. The results indicate that SR-GAN is the best method for precipitation data downscaling.
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• Abstract: Deep Learning (DL) based downscaling has become a popular tool in earth sciences recently. Increasingly, different DL approaches are being adopted to downscale coarser precipitation data and generate more accurate and reliable estimates at local (~few km or even smaller) scales. Despite several studies adopting dynamical or statistical downscaling of precipitation, the accuracy is limited by the availability of ground truth. A key challenge to gauge the accuracy of such methods is to compare the downscaled data to point-scale observations which are often unavailable at such small scales. In this work, we carry out the DL-based downscaling to estimate the local precipitation data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), which was created by approximating the value from station location to a grid point. To test the efficacy of different DL approaches, we apply four different methods of downscaling and evaluate their performance. The considered approaches are (i) Deep Statistical Downscaling (DeepSD), augmented Convolutional Long Short Term Memory (ConvLSTM), fully convolutional network (U-NET), and Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (SR-GAN). A custom VGG network, used in the SR-GAN, is developed in this work using precipitation data. The results indicate that SR-GAN is the best method for precipitation data downscaling. The downscaled data is validated with precipitation values at IMD station. This DL method offers a promising alternative to statistical downscaling.

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