A new study shows machine learningcomputer algorithms that improve themselves without direct programming by humanscan improve lightning forecasts.
A better understanding of where lightning can strike could help predict fires started by the bolts from the sky.
Predicting Danger
Improved lightning forecasts could help prepare for potential wildfires and improve safety warnings for lightning.
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“The best subjects for machine learning are things that we don’t fully understand.
And what is something in the atmospheric sciences field that remains poorly understood?
Putting Theory Into Practice
Artificial intelligence is already being used to help monitor for wildfire danger.
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Many companies are using AI to improve weather forecasts.
For example,Weather Streamuses AI to monitor precipitation from global satellite data, indicating drought regions.
Future advances in AI will make wildfire forecasting even more accurate, predicted Shpilevsky.
