Scientists want AI to help predict dangerous hurricanes

[Mike Wehner]

• A team of scientists, including those at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to predict the rapid intensification of tropical storms and hurricanes.
• The system is far more accurate than the current model and has a low rate of false positives.
• If used in the future, it could save lives by predicting strong storms well in advance.

With the southern United States still dealing with the effects of a pair of intense storms that arrived almost simultaneously, now is as good a time as ever for scientists to weigh in on the future of hurricane forecasting. In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists using data gathered by NASA satellites explain how algorithms can spot the telltale signs of a storm that's about to become much more powerful.

Being able to predict the intensity of a storm as it is brewing is incredibly difficult. There are many factors at play, but NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has honed in on a few key variables that an AI algorithm could search for in order to make an accurate prediction.

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