In meteorological data, various studies are being conducted to improve the prediction performance of rainfall with irregular patterns, unlike temperature and solar radiation with certain patterns. Especially in the case of the short-term forecast model for Dong-Nae Forecasts provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), forecast data are provided at 6-hour intervals, and there is a limit to analyzing the impact of disasters. In this study, Hydrological Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (HQPF) information was generated by applying the machine learning method to Local ENsemble prediction system (LENS), Radar-AWS Rainrates (RAR), AWS and ASOS observation data and Dong-Nae Forecast provided by the KMA. Through the preprocessing process, the temporal and spatial resolutions of all the data were converted to the same resolution, and the predictor of machine learning was derived through the factor analysis of the predictor. Considering the processing speed and expandability, the XGBoost method of machine learning was applied, and the Probability Matching (PM) method was applied to improve the prediction accuracy of heavy rainfall. As a result of evaluating the HQPF performance produced for 14 heavy rainfall events that occurred in 2020, it was found that the predicted performance of HQPF was improved quantitatively and qualitatively.

For the purposes of enhancing usability of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), the quantitative precipitation prediction scheme by machine learning has been proposed. In this study, heavy rainfall was corrected for by utilizing rainfall predictors from LENS and Radar from 2017 to 2018, as well as machine learning tools LightGBM and XGBoost. The results were analyzed using Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Normalized Peak Error (NPE), and Peak Timing Error (PTE) for rainfall corrected through machine learning. Machine learning results (i.e. using LightGBM and XGBoost) showed improvements in the overall correction of rainfall and maximum rainfall compared to LENS. For example, the MAE of case 5 was found to be 24.252 using LENS, 11.564 using LightGBM, and 11.693 using XGBoost, showing excellent error improvement in machine learning results. This rainfall correction technique can provide hydrologically meaningful rainfall information such as predictions of flooding. Future research on the interpretation of various hydrologic processes using machine learning is necessary.