Model aggregation using optimal transport and applications in wind speed forecasting

G. I. Papayiannis, G. N. Galanis and A. N. Yannacopoulos

Environmetrics, 2018, vol. 29, issue 8

Abstract: In several environmental affected socio‐economic activities, including renewable energy site assessment, search and rescue operations, and local microclimate modeling, the need of very local wind speed prediction is critical and not completely covered by the use of numerical weather prediction models. In meteorology and, particularly, in wind speed prediction, the spatial location of the prediction does not coincide with the spatial locations where numerical models provide estimates of the relevant quantity (which are typically grid points used for the numerical resolution of the wind transport equations). Hence, the important problem of constructing a predictive model for the wind speed at the required location using a combination of actual measurements and model predictions arises. This problem is far from trivial on account of the fact that measurements and predictions do not refer to the same quantity for the reason that typical grid points for the numerical scheme that provide model predictions and the location of the meteorological stations that provide measurements do not coincide. In this work, a new approach is proposed based on optimal transportation theory for the aggregation of model predictions and measurements for the construction of an optimal predictor for wind speed at the location of interest. Our model provides a linear predictive model in the space of probability distributions of the predictors (Wasserstein space), which is then mapped into observation space using a generalized quantile regression technique. Importantly, the proposed scheme allows also for the construction of zone monitoring the extremes, which when applied to real data, provides superior results with respect to other existing methods.

Date: 2018
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