Research Article

Convolutional Residual-Attention: A Deep Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcasting

Table 1

The classification criteria of precipitation grades and the data distribution.

Precipitation levelPrecipitation range (mm/h)Overall sample sizeEnhanced training set sizeTest set size

No rain<0.1257209724
Light rain0.1–1.5844235260
Moderate rain1.6–6.927942503291
Heavy rain7.0–14.9781169685
Rain storm15.0–39.932752846429
Big heavy rain40.0–49.9450224669
Extraordinary heavy rain≥50.0320222442