Weatherwatch: AI flood forecasting gives hope to people in vulnerable areas | UK news
A week ago, the Super Typhoon Ragasa broke out of communities in the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South China. A lake explosion in Taiwan resulted in a deadly water wall that spilled from a mountain, killed at least 14 people, wounded 18 injured and abandoned 33 people without calculating.
Now, a new AI prediction tool gives hope that previous warnings can be given and life can be saved.
More than one fifth of the world’s population is vulnerable to flood risks. Early warning systems have been shown to reduce deaths by 43%. Vinh Noc Tran and his colleagues, a hydrologist at the University of Michigan, developed a machine learning tool that reviewed the current flood models and learns and learns from situations where flood estimates were weak.
Combining this machine education with the national water model developed by the US National Ocean and atmosphere administration, researchers have shown that they could increase flood estimated accuracy up to six times. The study has been published here Agu is moving.
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The AI tool can be adapted to operate with other flood models and can be a Gamechanger for flood -prone areas around the world, providing detailed flood forecasts until a few days ago and gives vital time to prepare for communities.
