2024-03-21: Google Predicts Floods
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☔ Google Flood Precognition
This amazing paper from Google reveals that their flood predictions model is on par with a state-of-the-art nowcast… except a full day five days earlier.
Here we show that artificial intelligence-based forecasting achieves reliability in predicting extreme riverine events in ungauged watersheds at up to a five-day lead time that is similar to or better than the reliability of nowcasts (zero-day lead time) from a current state-of-the-art global modelling system (the Copernicus Emergency Management Service Global Flood Awareness System). In addition, we achieve accuracies over five-year return period events that are similar to or better than current accuracies over one-year return period events.Nature
In essence:
Hydrological models take in weather data like precipitation and …
