Statistical versus machine learning-based spatial interpolation of post-processed ensemble weather forecasts

📅 2026-09-07
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研究比较了统计和机器学习方法,用于处理德国未观测站点的天气预报插值问题,提出了一种改进的海拔感知线性池方法。
📝 Abstract
Statistical post-processing improves ensemble weather forecasts, but generating calibrated predictions at locations without observations remains challenging. This study compares statistical and machine-learning-based methods for post-processing ECMWF 2-m temperature and 10-m wind speed forecasts at observed and unobserved stations in Germany. We consider EMOS-based approaches, distributional regression networks, Transformers, and graph neural networks under both limited and extended predictor settings. For temperature, we also investigate linear forecast combinations and propose an altitude-aware linear pool (ALP). The results show that post-processing improves upon the raw ensemble in most settings, but no single method performs best across all variables, station groups, and evaluation metrics. The proposed ALP provides a small but significant improvement over the standard linear pool at unobserved locations.
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ensemble weather forecasts
post-processing
unobserved stations
calibrated predictions
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altitude-aware linear pool
post-processing
unobserved locations