Machine Learning-Based Front Detection in Central Europe

Autor: Danuta Kubacka, Agnieszka Wypych, Zbigniew Ustrnul, Bogdan Bochenek
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Atmosphere, Vol 12, Iss 1312, p 1312 (2021)
Atmosphere
Volume 12
Issue 10
ISSN: 2073-4433
DOI: 10.3390/atmos12101312
Popis: Extreme weather phenomena such as wind gusts, heavy precipitation, hail, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and many others usually occur when there is a change in air mass and the passing of a weather front over a certain region. The climatology of weather fronts is difficult, since they are usually drawn onto maps manually by forecasters
therefore, the data concerning them are limited and the process itself is very subjective in nature. In this article, we propose an objective method for determining the position of weather fronts based on the random forest machine learning technique, digitized fronts from the DWD database, and ERA5 meteorological reanalysis. Several aspects leading to the improvement of scores are presented, such as adding new fields or dates to the training database or using the gradients of fields.
Databáze: OpenAIRE