Publications related to Tornado warning

Augmenting the performance of impoverished sensor networks using machine learning and time reversal: Application to lightning nowcasting and location

Lightning is formed in the atmosphere through the combination of intricate dynamic and microphysical processes. Mainly due to this complexity, attempts to solve the important problem of lightning prediction have generally failed to yield accurate results. ...

EPFL2021

Learning Decoupled Representations for Human Pose Forecasting

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Saeed Saadatnejad, Taylor Ferdinand Mordan, Yuejiang Liu, Behnam Parsaeifard

Human pose forecasting involves complex spatiotemporal interactions between body parts (e.g., arms, legs, spine). State-of-the-art approaches use Long Short-Term Memories (LSTMs) or Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) to solve the problem. Yet, they do not eff ...

IEEE2021

Meteolakes: An operational online three-dimensional forecasting platform for lake hydrodynamics

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Theo Baracchini

Environmental management depends on high-quality monitoring and its meaningful interpretation. The combination of local weather dynamics, regional anthropogenic stresses and global environmental changes make the evaluation of monitoring information in dyna ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Nowcasting lightning occurrence from commonly available meteorological parameters using machine learning techniques

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Amirhossein Mostajabi

Article Open Access Published: 08 November 2019 Nowcasting lightning occurrence from commonly available meteorological parameters using machine learning techniques Amirhossein Mostajabi, Declan L. Finney, Marcos Rubinstein & Farhad Rachidi npj Climate and ...

2019

Short-Term Forecasting of Wake-Induced Fluctuations in Offshore Wind Farms

Arslan Salim Dar

The increasing share of offshore wind energy traded at the spot market requires short term wind direction forecasts to determine wake losses and increased power fluctuations due to multiple wakes in certain wind directions. The information on potential pow ...

2019

A severe hail storm in complex topography in Switzerland-Observations and processes

Nikola Besic, Urs Martin Germann

This paper studies a damaging hail storm that occurred on 6 June 2015 in the complex topography of Switzerland. The storm persisted for several hours and produced large hail resulting in significant damage. Storms of comparable severity occur on average on ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2018

A radar-based regional extreme rainfall analysis to derive the thresholds for a novel automatic alert system in Switzerland

Alexis Berne, Luca Panziera, Marco Gabella, Urs Martin Germann

This paper presents a regional extreme rainfall analysis based on 10 years of radar data for the 159 regions adopted for official natural hazard warnings in Switzerland. Moreover, a nowcasting tool aimed at issuing heavy precipitation regional alerts is in ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

Integrated flood forecasting and management system in a complex catchment area in the Alps—implementation of the MINERVE project in the Canton of Valais

Javier García Hernández, Bastien Roquier

A complex hydrologic-hydraulic model has been developed for the Upper Rhone River basin in Switzerland. It is currently operational in the Canton of Valais for real-time flood forecasting and management, providing automatic warnings to the crisis cell of t ...

2014

Flood Management in a Complex River Basin with a Real-Time Decision Support System Based on Hydrological Forecasts

Javier García Hernández

During the last decades, the Upper Rhone River basin has been hit by several flood events causing significant damages in excess of 500 million Swiss Francs. From this situation, the 3rd Rhône river training project was planned in order to improve the flood ...

EPFL2011