Modeling Of Mean Tropospheric Temperature From Convolutional Neural Networks

The Mean Tropospheric Temperature (Tm) is important for the sake of the conversion between Zenith Path Delay (ZPD) to Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) because of the proportionality constant that takes Tm to be calculated. In Brazil, Tm modeling’s been traditionally performed using Multiple Linear Regression Models (MLR). However, recent works suggest the use of Deep Learning methods to model Tm values. In this work, we propose models based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) using radiosonde data from 1961 to 2010. The results show that CNN models can outperform the traditional methods considering different statistic metrics like R, standard deviation, and RMSE.