Dataset for rainfall modeling in central Europe from 1981-2011.
problem Improving rainfall streamflow modeling beyond simple catchments.
method Spatially resolved meteorological and ancillary data compilation.
result Dataset for neural network-driven hydrological modeling.
SVM predicts regional rainfall with varying accuracy, best in central US.
problem Regional rainfall prediction for social and economic impact planning.
method Support Vector Machine (SVM) applied to sequences of daily rainfall maps.
result SVM predictions for central region outperform untrained classifier.
Bayesian approach improves rain field reconstruction using CMLs and DMs.
problem Challenges in accurately reconstructing ground-level rainfall from CML path-integrated measurements.
method Bayesian inverse problem with Diffusion Models as priors.
result Improved performance in rainfall estimation compared to existing methods.
Accurate and efficient models for rainfall runoff (RR) simulations are crucial for flood risk management. Most rainfall models in use today are process-driven; i.e. they solve either simplified empirical formulas or some variation of the St. Venant (shallow water) equations. With the development of machine-learning tec…
Study a risk model with tree-structured Poisson-Markov random field for rainfall events.
problem Dependence between rainfall frequencies in insurance portfolios.
method Tree-structured Markov random field with Poisson marginals.
result Asymptotic results for portfolio risk and risk allocation.
Study improves flood loss risk models using historical data and rainfall data.
problem Predicting financial losses from flooding events.
method Used neural networks, decision trees, and kernel-based regressors on NFIP dataset, incorporating rainfall data.
result Extreme Gradient Boosting provided the best results, and bias correction improved model performance.
Rainfall prediction is one of the challenging and uncertain tasks which has a significant impact on human society. Timely and accurate predictions can help to proactively reduce human and financial loss. This study presents a set of experiments which involve the use of prevalent machine learning techniques to build mod…
Rainfall ensemble forecasts have to be skillful for both low precipitation and extreme events. We present statistical post-processing methods based on Quantile Regression Forests (QRF) and Gradient Forests (GF) with a parametric extension for heavy-tailed distributions. Our goal is to improve ensemble quality for all t…
Functional data analysis is a statistical framework where data are assumed to follow some functional form. This method of analysis is commonly applied to time series data, where time, measured continuously or in discrete intervals, serves as the location for a function's value. Gaussian processes are a generalization o…
New algorithm estimates semi-continuous data density using entropy maximization.
problem Estimating density functions for semi-continuous data.
method Maximum entropy principle, requiring only constraint function samples.
result Estimate has significantly less bias compared to existing methods.
Discrete-time hidden Markov models are a broadly useful class of latent-variable models with applications in areas such as speech recognition, bioinformatics, and climate data analysis. It is common in practice to introduce temporal non-homogeneity into such models by making the transition probabilities dependent on ti…
HydroNets use river structure to improve hydrologic predictions.
problem Scalable and accurate hydrologic models are needed for climate change impacts.
method HydroNets are deep neural networks that incorporate river network structure.
result HydroNets improve predictions with fewer data, especially at longer horizons.
RainfallBench benchmarks GNSS-based precipitation nowcasting models, addressing complex meteorological challenges.
problem Evaluation of precipitation nowcasting models in meteorology is insufficient due to focus on periodic variables.
method RainfallBench dataset and specialized evaluation protocols for multi-scale, multi-resolution, and extreme rainfall events.
result Bi-Focus Precipitation Forecaster (BFPF) enhances rainfall time series forecasting by incorporating domain-specific priors.
New method uses SDEs for accurate non-uniformly sampled time series analysis.
problem Characterizing non-uniformly sampled time series with high accuracy.
method Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) for modeling, incremental estimation, and model truncation.
result Increased accuracy in characterizing non-uniformly sampled time series.
Study predicts stream turbidity using surrogate data and meta-model.
problem Costly turbidity sensor deployment limits monitoring networks.
method Dynamic regression (ARIMA), LSTM, GAM models; surrogate covariates (rainfall, water level, temperature, solar exposure); meta-model combining strengths of individual models.
result ARIMA and GAM models with all covariates outperform single models; meta-model yields highest accuracy.
Products of Hidden Markov Models(PoHMMs) are an interesting class of generative models which have received little attention since their introduction. This maybe in part due to their more computationally expensive gradient-based learning algorithm,and the intractability of computing the log likelihood of sequences under…
Deep learning identifies precipitation clouds from all-sky camera data.
problem Automating cloud warning systems for observatories.
method Deep learning using EfficientNet network.
result Average accuracy of 99% in identifying rainfall potential and 96% in cloud coverage.
Joint models are a common and important tool in the intersection of machine learning and the physical sciences, particularly in contexts where real-world measurements are scarce. Recent developments in rainfall-runoff modeling, one of the prime challenges in hydrology, show the value of a joint model with shared repres…
Despite the huge success of Long Short-Term Memory networks, their applications in environmental sciences are scarce. We argue that one reason is the difficulty to interpret the internals of trained networks. In this study, we look at the application of LSTMs for rainfall-runoff forecasting, one of the central tasks in…
Paper compares modern regression methods for time series data.
problem Regression analysis of time series data with time-indexed predictors.
method Classical statistical and recent machine learning approaches compared.
result Advantages and disadvantages of current methods identified.
In this paper, the problem of road friction prediction from a fleet of connected vehicles is investigated. A framework is proposed to predict the road friction level using both historical friction data from the connected cars and data from weather stations, and comparative results from different methods are presented. …
Flooding is a destructive and dangerous hazard and climate change appears to be increasing the frequency of catastrophic flooding events around the world. Physics-based flood models are costly to calibrate and are rarely generalizable across different river basins, as model outputs are sensitive to site-specific parame…
Studying the impact of climate change on precipitation is constrained by finding a way to evaluate the evolution of precipitation variability over time. Classical approaches (feature-based) have shown their limitations for this issue due to the intermittent and irregular nature of precipitation. In this study, we prese…
Data scientists guide to streamflow prediction and flood forecasting.
problem Forecasting floods and predicting streamflow volume.
method Explains hydrologic concepts and machine learning applications.
result Helps data scientists understand streamflow prediction.
New estimator handles covariate shift with closed-form solution and super-efficiency.
problem Handling covariate shift in missing data and causal inference problems.
method Minimum Wasserstein distance estimation framework.
result Closed-form expression and super-efficiency relative to semiparametric efficient estimator.
New method improves speed of estimating bivariate functional data.
problem Estimating bivariate functional data at faster rates.
method Adapting to directional regularity of bivariate processes.
result Faster rates of convergence achieved through change-of-basis.
Regional rainfall-runoff modeling is an old but still mostly out-standing problem in Hydrological Sciences. The problem currently is that traditional hydrological models degrade significantly in performance when calibrated for multiple basins together instead of for a single basin alone. In this paper, we propose a nov…
New method models precipitation extremes and spatial dependence.
problem Estimating dependencies of precipitation maxima in space and time.
method Generative neural networks for max-stable processes.
result Explicit nonparametric estimate of spatial dependence.
Applying machine learning models to meteorological data brings many opportunities to the Geosciences field, such as predicting future weather conditions more accurately. In recent years, modeling meteorological data with deep neural networks has become a relevant area of investigation. These works apply either recurren…
This paper reviews radar-based nowcasting techniques for short-term weather predictions.
problem Short-term weather predictions for adverse events like heavy rain and flooding.
method Analysis of existing radar-based nowcasting techniques and machine learning approaches.
result New partnerships between environmental science and machine learning can improve nowcasting.
Deep generative models improve global precipitation forecasts.
problem Accurately forecasting extreme rainfall is challenging and costly.
method Trained a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CorrectorGAN) to correct and super-resolve global precipitation forecasts.
result CorrectorGAN produces high-resolution, bias-corrected forecasts in seconds.
We consider a financial contract that delivers a single cash flow given by the terminal value of a cumulative gains process. The problem of modelling and pricing such an asset and associated derivatives is important, for example, in the determination of optimal insurance claims reserve policies, and in the pricing of r…
New clustering method for exponential family data.
problem Improving clustering for non-Gaussian data.
method Bregman Power k-Means algorithm.
result Outperforms existing methods in non-Gaussian data settings.
Generative deep learning improves precipitation forecasts by adding resolution.
problem Inaccurate and unreliable precipitation forecasts due to unresolved processes.
method Applying GANs to super-resolve low-resolution weather model data using radar measurements.
result GANs and VAE-GANs produce high-resolution precipitation maps with better statistical properties than existing methods.
Unified model estimates landslide hazard combining susceptibility, intensity, and frequency.
problem Lack of unified statistical models for landslide hazard estimation.
method Deep learning combined with extreme-value theory.
result Model performs excellently and can estimate hazard for multiple return periods.
Paper compares neural networks and time-series models for weather derivative pricing.
problem Pricing accuracy and regime adaptation for temperature and precipitation weather derivatives.
method Benchmarked harmonic-regression/ARMA vs. feed-forward neural network for temperature. Used CNN for precipitation, adapting to seasonal heterogeneity.
result CNN yields more accurate pricing, especially for regime-adapted seasonal data.
Spatio-temporal (ST) data for urban applications, such as taxi demand, traffic flow, regional rainfall is inherently stochastic and unpredictable. Recently, deep learning based ST prediction models are proposed to learn the ST characteristics of data. However, it is still very challenging (1) to adequately learn the co…
Deep learning predicts crop yield integrating genotype and weather data.
problem Improving crop yield prediction for diverse climates.
method Long Short Term Memory - Recurrent Neural Network model with temporal attention mechanism.
result Deep learning models outperform traditional methods for yield prediction.
A method to improve time series forecasting by dynamically adjusting weights of forecasters.
problem Challenges in time series forecasting due to evolving data distributions.
method Dynamic re-weighting of forecasters based on evolving data distributions.
result Competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods for combining forecasters.
New method simulates multivariate extreme events using GANs and Aitchison coordinates.
problem Simulating multivariate extreme events for economic risk assessment.
method Wasserstein-Aitchison GAN approach combining tail dependence and marginal tail modeling.
result Strong performance in capturing tail dependence and generating accurate extreme observations.
This study forecasts climate data in Chile using EOFs and machine learning models.
problem Predicting climatic variability in Chile for resource management and planning.
method Combines EOF decomposition, wavelet analysis, and neural networks for spatiotemporal forecasting.
result Improved accuracy in forecasting climate data through a hybrid ML approach.
Study compares two methods for predicting extreme atmospheric events.
problem Forecasting threshold exceedances of atmospheric variables like temperature and wind speed.
method Direct vs. full distribution probabilistic methods for rare events.
result Full distribution approach outperforms direct method for extreme events.
Proposes a new tail risk measure based on the most probable maximum risk event size.
problem Current risk measures like VaR and ES are limited in their applicability and require specifying a confidence level.
method Develops a new risk measure called MPMR that does not require a confidence level and scales with the length of the time interval.
result The new risk measure, MPMR, scales with the number of observations by a power law, allowing for reliable estimations of long-term risks based on short-term estimations.
A vast amount of textual web streams is influenced by events or phenomena emerging in the real world. The social web forms an excellent modern paradigm, where unstructured user generated content is published on a regular basis and in most occasions is freely distributed. The present Ph.D. Thesis deals with the problem …
New clustering method improves climate data analysis in Lesser Antilles.
problem Inducing undesirable effects in clustering algorithms using Euclidean distance.
method Replacing Euclidean distance with Expert Deviation (ED) based on symmetrized Kullback-Leibler divergence.
result KMS-ED produces more interpretable clusters with better discrimination of daily situations.
The paper introduces BCART models for aggregate claim amount, improving frequency-severity and joint modeling.
problem Modeling aggregate claim amount with frequency-severity and joint dependencies.
method Developed three types of BCART models: frequency-severity, sequential, and joint models. Used various distributions for claim severity data.
result Weibull distribution outperforms gamma and lognormal for right-skewed, heavy-tailed claim severity data.
The paper uses model-based trees to create interpretable surrogate models for complex machine learning models.
problem Interpreting complex machine learning models.
method Using model-based trees to partition feature space and create interpretable models.
result Model-based trees generate optimal surrogate models that balance interpretability and performance.
Gauge Flow Models use a learnable Gauge Field in Generative Flow Models.
problem Improving generative model performance.
method Integrates a learnable Gauge Field into Flow ODEs.
result Gauge Flow Models outperform traditional Flow Models in Flow Matching experiments.