ENSO Forecasts With Spatiotemporal Fusion Transformer Network

Autor: Anming Zhao, Mengjiao Qin, Sensen Wu, Renyi Liu, Zhenhong Du
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol 17, Pp 17066-17074 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1939-1404
2151-1535
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3447356
Popis: The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global significant signal which exerts substantial climatic and socioeconomic impacts worldwide. However, the long-term prediction of ENSO persists as a challenge because of its diversity, irregularity, and asymmetry. Here, we develop a spatiotemporal fusion transformer network (STFTN), which designed a parallel encoder structure to effectively extract the spatiotemporal information from sea surface temperature anomaly and Niño3.4 index simultaneously, thereby enhancing the precision of Niño3.4 index forecasts. STFTN leverages the attention mechanism within its parallel encoder structure to extract global characteristics and establish remote dependencies on targets. With this structure, STFTN displays better prediction accuracy in different lead months. Furthermore, the activation map used in STFTN visualizes the contribution of the predictors to the output which helps to comprehend the factors contributing to ENSO events. The results highlight the potential of our model of ENSO forecasts and comprehension.
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