Deep multi-stations weather forecasting: explainable recurrent convolutional neural networks
This work addresses weather prediction for meteorology using an incremental approach with attention mechanisms.
The paper tackled weather forecasting by comparing deep learning architectures on 15 years of data from 18 European cities, showing that adding a self-attention block improves forecasting performance.
Deep learning applied to weather forecasting has started gaining popularity because of the progress achieved by data-driven models. The present paper compares two different deep learning architectures to perform weather prediction on daily data gathered from 18 cities across Europe and spanned over a period of 15 years. We propose the Deep Attention Unistream Multistream (DAUM) networks that investigate different types of input representations (i.e. tensorial unistream vs. multistream ) as well as the incorporation of the attention mechanism. In particular, we show that adding a self-attention block within the models increases the overall forecasting performance. Furthermore, visualization techniques such as occlusion analysis and score maximization are used to give an additional insight on the most important features and cities for predicting a particular target feature of target cities.