Improving One-Day-Ahead Forecasting of Low-Latitude Amplitude Scintillation Using an Upsampling-Enhanced LSTM

The scintillation in radio wave propagation, particularly in regions near the magnetic equator, is found to be introduced by the ionospheric irregularities causing unsatisfactory performance in satellite-based applications. In order to mitigate this effect, we design a long short-term memory (LSTM) model to forecast amplitude scintillation at 1-min resolution. In addition, the upsampling-based feature preprocessing is introduced to improve forecasting performance, especially for short-term severe scintillation events. In terms of R$^{2}$, which is a popular forecast evaluation metric, our proposed model exhibits about 20% improvement over the same LSTM model without upsampling. Furthermore, although existing studies achieve good forecasting accuracy up to 4 h ahead, the proposed model sets a benchmark with one-day-ahead forecasting, but at the cost of longer training time due to upsampling.