| Autor: |
Minixhofer, Christoph, Swan, Mark, McMeekin, Calum, Andreadis, Pavlos |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Zdroj: |
Minixhofer, C, Swan, M, McMeekin, C & Andreadis, P 2021, ' DroughtED: A dataset and methodology for drought forecasting spanning multiple climate zones ', Paper presented at Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 23/07/21-23/07/21 . |
| Popis: |
Climate change exacerbates the frequency, duration and extent of extreme weather events such as drought. Previous attempts to forecast drought conditions using machine learning have focused on regional models which have two major limitations for national drought management: (i) they are trained on localised climate data and (ii) their architectures prevent them from being applied to new heterogeneous regions. In this work, we present a new large-scale dataset for training machine learning models to forecast national drought conditions, named DroughtED. The dataset consists of globally available meteorological features widely used for drought prediction, paired with location meta-data which has not previously been utilised for drought forecasting. Here we also establish a baseline on DroughtED and present the first research to apply deep learning models - Long Short-Term Memory (LSTMs) and Transformers - to predict county-level drought conditions across the full extent of the United States. Our results indicate that DroughtED enables deep learning models to learn cross-region patterns in climate data that contribute to drought conditions and models trained on DroughtED compare favourably to state-of-the-art drought prediction models trained on individual regions. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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