RESEARCHarXiv CS.LG·4/20/2026
M3R: Localized Rainfall Nowcasting with Meteorology-Informed MultiModal Attention
M3R is a novel AI architecture for rainfall nowcasting that integrates visual radar imagery and numerical weather station data through a multimodal attention mechanism. It uses weather station time series as queries to selectively focus on spatial radar features, demonstrating improved performance over existing methods in localized prediction.
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