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The change in continuous echo images is regarded as a nonlinear transformation process of the grid. This process can be reproduced by defining and solving a 2 \u00d7 6 transformation matrix, and this approach can be applied to image prediction. In ideal experiments with numerical and path changes of the target, NGT produces a prediction result closer to the target than does a conventional optical flow (OF) method. In the presence of convection lines in real cases, NGT is superior to OF: the critical success index (CSI) for 40 dBZ of the echo prediction at 60 min is approximately 0.2 higher. This is due to the better estimation of the movement of the whole cloud system in the NGT results since it reflects the continuous change in the historical images. For the case with a mesoscale convective complex, the NGT results are better than the OF results, and a deep learning result is cited from a previous study for the same case for 20 and 30 dBZ. 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