Ionospheric TEC Forecasting

CNN-DDL architecture for real-time solar wind drivers and extreme geomagnetic superstorms.

Project Overview

Co-authored a CNN-DDL architecture featuring a dynamic gate that conditions real-time solar wind drivers to scale non-linear corrections over physical persistence baselines.

Key Achievements

  • Zero-Shot Testing: Evaluated via zero-shot cross-solar-cycle testing (SC25 to SC24), achieving SOTA storm-time error rates (2.30 RMSE) and outperforming deep sequential baselines and IRI-2020.
  • Uncertainty Quantification: Integrated Marginal Split Conformal Prediction to establish distribution-free uncertainty quantification, providing a mathematically reliable 90% empirical coverage bound during extreme geomagnetic superstorms.

Technologies Used: PyTorch, Deep Delta Learning, Conformal Prediction, CNNs