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1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

   Downscaling, bias correction, and spatial adjustment of extreme tropical cyclone rainfall in ERA5 using deep learning

   Ascenso, Ficchì, Giuliani, Scoccimarro and Castelletti · Weather and Climate Extremes · 2024

   The authors built a U-Net-based model, RA-U c m p d, trained with a compound loss to correct and downscale ERA5 rainfall during tropical cyclones, and tested it against other models.

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   1. UncheckedA U-Net model with a compound loss improves ERA5 tropical cyclone rainfall in almost all metrics by 3-28%, with a 3% larger peak-magnitude error.“Our results show how RA-U c m p d improves ERA5 in almost all metrics by 3-28%—more than the other models we used for comparison which actually worsen the total rainfall bias of ERA5—at the cost of a slightly increased (3%) error on the magnitude of the peak.”