Abstract:In order to strengthen the application of deep learning in precipitation nowcasting over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the 10-minute QPE observation during 2018-2019 was used to construct a minute-level precipitation nowcasting model based on U-Net,which realizes 10-minute rolling precipitation forecast in the future 0-2 hours. By verifying the long series from June to September in 2020 and 2021 and analyzing two cases of heavy precipitation on both August 12, 2020 and July 1, 2021 based on evaluation indicators such as TS, BIAS, POD, SR and FAR, results show that the prediction of U-Net model is close to observation accompanied by false alarms to some extent and its forecasting effect is significantly improved compared with the optical flow method, persistent forecast and CMA-MESO model. Specific performance as follows: when the minute-level precipitation forecast does not exceed 10 mm/(10 min), the U-Net model is significantly better than the optical flow method and persistence forecast; when the hourly forecast does not exceed 25 mm·h-1, the U-Net model is significantly better than the CMA-MESO model and the optical flow method. However, when the precipitation intensity exceeds 10 mm/(10 min) or 25 mm·h-1, U-Net has a weak forecast, which may be related to fewer samples of heavy precipitation.