A brief review of random forests for water scientists and practitioners and their recent history in water resources

H Tyralis, G Papacharalampous, A Langousis - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Random forests (RF) is a supervised machine learning algorithm, which has recently started
to gain prominence in water resources applications. However, existing applications are …

Assessment of new solar radiation nowcasting methods based on sky-camera and satellite imagery

FJ Rodríguez-Benítez, M López-Cuesta… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This work proposes and evaluates methods for extending the forecasting horizon of all-sky
imager (ASI)-based solar radiation nowcasts and estimating the uncertainty of these …

Determination of cloud transmittance for all sky imager based solar nowcasting

B Nouri, S Wilbert, L Segura, P Kuhn, N Hanrieder… - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The demand for accurate solar irradiance nowcast increases together with the rapidly
growing share of solar energy within our electricity grids. Intra-hour variabilities, mainly …

A novel method for ground-based cloud image classification using transformer

X Li, B Qiu, G Cao, C Wu, L Zhang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved competitive
performance in the field of ground-based cloud image (GCI) classification. Proposed CNN …

Tropical cyclone intensity estimation using two-branch convolutional neural network from infrared and water vapor images

R Zhang, Q Liu, R Hang - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a two-branch convolutional neural network model (TCIENet) to
estimate the intensity of tropical cyclone (TC) from infrared and water vapor images in the …

Statistical downscaling of temperature distributions in southwest China by using terrain-guided attention network

G Liu, R Zhang, R Hang, L Ge, C Shi… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning techniques, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have
dramatically boosted the performance of statistical downscaling. In this study, we propose a …

A cloud classification method based on a convolutional neural network for fy-4a satellites

Y Jiang, W Cheng, F Gao, S Zhang, S Wang, C Liu… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The study of cloud types is critical for understanding atmospheric motions and climate
predictions; for example, accurately classified cloud products help improve meteorological …

Southern Ocean cloud and aerosol data: a compilation of measurements from the 2018 Southern Ocean Ross Sea Marine Ecosystems and Environment voyage

S Kremser, M Harvey, P Kuma, S Hartery… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Due to its remote location and extreme weather conditions, atmospheric in situ
measurements are rare in the Southern Ocean. As a result, aerosol-cloud interactions in this …

Classification of cloud images by using super resolution, semantic segmentation approaches and binary sailfish optimization method with deep learning model

M Toğaçar, B Ergen - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2022 - Elsevier
Clouds are structures formed by ice crystals, water grains, or both that come together in the
atmosphere for various reasons. Clouds have a direct impact on areas such as climate …

[HTML][HTML] Blending of a novel all sky imager model with persistence and a satellite based model for high-resolution irradiance nowcasting

N Straub, W Herzberg, A Dittmann, E Lorenz - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
High shares of variable energy sources such as photovoltaics (PV) make balancing network
load and generation increasingly challenging. Electricity grids with high PV-penetration …