Chinese researchers unveil early storm forecasting system
A team of researchers from the China National Satellite Meteorological Center has created an immediate forecasting system using satellite data collected with AI, enabling accurate predictions up to four hours in advance
Researchers from the China National Satellite Meteorological Center, in a collaborative effort involving various universities and scientific institutes, unveiled a storm forecasting system with up to four hours of advance warning.
The system operates using data collected through artificial intelligence, according to a publication in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The study is led by scientist Wang Jingsong of the National Satellite Meteorological Center, who described “nowcasting,” the immediate forecasting process that allows for “obtaining current atmospheric observations and using them to generate rapid, short-term predictions of future atmospheric conditions.”
Jingsong indicated that the role of this system is crucial today, considering the abruptness of severe convective weather, which changes rapidly and reaches great destructive power. In this regard, “the lead time and coverage of this system still leave much to be desired and hardly meet the needs of emergency disaster response.”
The researchers have taken advantage of the Fengyun-4 series of satellites for large-scale, uninterrupted monitoring to collect long-term data, “extracting and predicting the complex and random movements of convective cloud clusters.”
Regarding the system’s coverage, it is estimated at approximately 20 million square kilometers, in addition to providing a high-resolution convective forecast every 15 minutes for up to four hours.
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Source: noticiasncc
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