Jinyoung Park, Inyoung Lee, Minseok Son, Seungju Cho, and Changick Kim, “Nowformer : A locally enhanced temporal learner for precipitation nowcasting” in Proc. the 36th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop (NeurIPSW), New Orleans, USA, Nov. 27 – Dec. 6, 2022.

The precipitation video datasets have distinctive meteorological patterns where a mass of fluid moves in a particular direction across the entire frames, and each local area of the fluid has an individual life cycle from initiation to maturation to decay. This paper proposes a novel transformer-based model for precipitation nowcasting that can extract global and local dynamics within meteorological characteristics. The experimental results show our model achieves state-of-the-art performances on the precipitation nowcasting benchmark.