Seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon onset with echo state networks

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Abstract

Although the prediction of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) onset is of crucial importance for water-resource management and agricultural planning on the Indian sub-continent, the long-term predictability - especially at seasonal time scales - is little explored and remains challenging. We propose a method based on artificial neural networks that provides skilful long-term forecasts (beyond 3 months) of the ISM onset, although only trained on short and noisy data. It is shown that the meridional tropospheric temperature gradient in the boreal winter season already contains the signals needed for predicting the ISM onset in the subsequent summer season. Our study demonstrates that machine-learning-based approaches can be simultaneously helpful for both data-driven prediction and enhancing the process understanding of climate phenomena.

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Mitsui, T., & Boers, N. (2021). Seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon onset with echo state networks. Environmental Research Letters, 16(7). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0acb

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