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Wind speed prediction using multidimensional convolutional neural networks

Machine Learning 2020-07-27 v1

Abstract

Accurate wind speed forecasting is of great importance for many economic, business and management sectors. This paper introduces a new model based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for wind speed prediction tasks. In particular, we show that compared to classical CNN-based models, the proposed model is able to better characterise the spatio-temporal evolution of the wind data by learning the underlying complex input-output relationships from multiple dimensions (views) of the input data. The proposed model exploits the spatio-temporal multivariate multidimensional historical weather data for learning new representations used for wind forecasting. We conduct experiments on two real-life weather datasets. The datasets are measurements from cities in Denmark and in the Netherlands. The proposed model is compared with traditional 2- and 3-dimensional CNN models, a 2D-CNN model with an attention layer and a 2D-CNN model equipped with upscaling and depthwise separable convolutions.

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@article{arxiv.2007.12567,
  title  = {Wind speed prediction using multidimensional convolutional neural networks},
  author = {Kevin Trebing and Siamak Mehrkanoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12567},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures

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