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For a more detailed update, you can access the text of the latest paper presented at the January 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting at this link: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/132577.pdf

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For a more detailed update, you can access the text of a paper presented at the January 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting at this link: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/132577.pdf

The presentation put together by our colleague meteorologist Bill Vessey from KIII TV gives an excellent introduction to the story: KIII TV News Story

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For a more detailed update You can access the text of the latest paper presented at the January 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting at this link: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/132577.pdf

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For a more detailed update, you can access the text of the latest paper presented at the January 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting at this link: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/132577.pdf

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Graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas.
Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Illustration of the performance of the model for the Victoria area (June 2004 - September 2005)

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Graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Schematic of a ROC Curve obtained when testing the model on new data in the Victoria area. The data set was divided in 3 parts, 40% for training, 20% for validation and 40% for testing. The ROC curve shows the performance of the model on the testing set.

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Schematic of a ROC Curve obtained when testing the model on new data in the Victoria area. The data set, June 1st, 2004 to October 31, 2007, was divided in 3 parts, 40% for training, 20% for validation and 40% for testing. The ROC curve shows the performance of the model on a testing set (June 2004 - September 2005) for the Victoria area after being trained on the other portion of the data set.

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Graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Schematic of Artificial Neural Network model used to predict Thunderstorms:

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Schematic of Artificial Neural Network model used to predict Thunderstorms:

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Schematic of a ROC Curve obtained when testing the model on new data in the Victoria area. The data set was divided in 3 parts, 40% for training, 20% for validation and 40% for testing. The ROC curve shows the performance of the model on the testing set.

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Schematic of a ROC Curve obtained when testing the model on new data in the Victoria area. The data set was divided in 3 parts, 40% for training, 20% for validation and 40% for testing. The ROC curve shows the performance of the model on the testing set.

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Illustration of the performance of the model for Victoria

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Illustration of the performance of the model for Victoria

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Schematic of a ROC Curve obtained when testing the model on new data in the Victoria area. The data set was divided in 3 parts, 40% for training, 20% for validation and 40% for testing. The ROC curve shows the performance of the model on the testing set.

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Illustration of the performance of the model for Victoria

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Map of the model test area, a set of 20km x 20km boxes covering most of South Texas:

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Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

Access a South Texas Lighting Strikes Map

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Graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Schematic of Artificial Neural Network model used to predict Thunderstorms:

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Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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USE OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TO FORECAST THUNDERSTORM LOCATION

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USE OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TO FORECAST THUNDERSTORM LOCATION

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Access map of the model test area, a set of 20km x 20km boxes covering most of South Texas:

Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Access map of the model test area, a set of 20km x 20km boxes covering most of South Texas:

Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

February 20, 2008, at 03:48 PM by ptissot -
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USE OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TO FORECAST THUNDERSTORM LOCATION

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USE OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TO FORECAST THUNDERSTORM LOCATION

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Access map of the model test area, a set of 20km x 20km boxes covering most of South Texas:

Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Access map of the model test area, a set of 20km x 20km boxes covering most of South Texas:

Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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Access map of the model test area, a set of 20km x 20km boxes covering most of South Texas:

Access a graph with the number of lightnings per year for different parts of South Texas. Notice that there are less lightning strikes along the arid Mexican border and in the Gulf of Mexico while there are more strikes north east of Victoria.

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USE OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TO FORECAST THUNDERSTORM LOCATION

A feed-forward, supervised, multi-layer perceptron Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was developed to test the following hypothesis: An ANN can be developed to successfully forecast thunderstorm activity up to 24 hours in advance, and with a spatial accuracy of 20-km, wherein ANN inputs include selected output from (1) deterministic mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, and from (2) selected sub-grid scale data that contributes to convective initiation, or CI. The underlying logic of this hypothesis is that the NWP model output provides a forecast of whether the larger mesoscale environment is conducive to CI while the sub-grid scale data determines the extent to which convection could be triggered at a particular location. The ANN serves as a means to map the highly non-linear relationship between the foregoing inputs and thunderstorm occurrence; an ANN model to forecast thunderstorms would result.

For a more detailed update You can access the text of the latest paper presented at the January 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting at this link: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/132577.pdf

Access map of the model test area, a set of 20km x 20km boxes covering most of South Texas:

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You can access our paper presented at the January 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting at this link: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/132577.pdf

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You can access our paper presented at the January 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting at this link: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/132577.pdf

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