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A Wind-Aware 3D Spatiotemporal Forecasting Model for Ultra-Short-Term Cumulus Cloud Prediction
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A solar energy research paper on A Wind-Aware 3D Spatiotemporal Forecasting Model for Ultra-Short-Term Cumulus Cloud Prediction.
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Forecasting the deformation and movement of cumulus clouds provides an important basis for ultra-short-term solar irradiance nowcasting in photovoltaic (PV) power generation. Existing methods mainly use two-dimensional (2D) ground-based sky images for forecasting, which have limited ability to represent the three-dimensional (3D) spatial structure of cumulus clouds and the influence of wind on cloud motion. In this study, we propose a wind-aware ultra-short-term spatiotemporal forecasting model for 3D cumulus clouds, termed three-dimensional Cloud Long Short-Term Memory with Wind Gate Recurrent Unit (3dCLSTM + WindGRU). The model uses 3dCLSTM to learn the spatial structure and temporal evolution of 3D voxel cumulus cloud sequences, and embeds a WindGRU unit between 3dCLSTM layers to introduce wind speed and wind direction information for wind-driven transient motion modeling. Experiments were conducted on 1-min and 10-min 3D cumulus cloud datasets reconstructed from ground-based sky image datasets collected at sites in California and Colorado, USA. All voxel sequences were resampled to 64 × 64 × 64, with five-step prediction for the 1-min dataset and three-step prediction for the 10-min dataset. The results show that 3dCLSTM achieved a structural similarity index measure (SSIM) of 0.7913 on the 1-min dataset, while 3dCLSTM + WindGRU achieved the best performance on the 10-min dataset, with an SSIM of 0.3512 and a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of 18.3625. Compared with 3dCLSTM, introducing WindGRU improved the SSIM by 4.8% on the 10-min dataset, with a more evident improvement under relatively high wind-speed conditions. These results indicate that wind-aware volumetric spatiotemporal modeling can support ultra-short-term 3D cumulus cloud forecasting and provide a useful technical basis for solar irradiance nowcasting.
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