Session 13B Artificial Intelligence in Radar Meteorology I: Nowcasting, Convection, and Quality Control

Thursday, 31 August 2023: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Great Lakes A (Hyatt Regency Minneapolis)
Host: 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chairs:
Haonan Chen, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Boulder, CO and Randy Chase, NSF, OU Center for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling, Lakeland, TN

Papers:
10:30 AM
13B.1
Inpainting Gaps and Blocked Areas in Weather Radar Networks with Deep Learning
Matej Murín, Prague, Czech republic; and M. Choma, M. Troller, J. Bartel, and P. Šimánek

10:45 AM
13B.2
The Development of a Single-Radar Tornado Prediction Algorithm Using Machine Learning
Thea Sandmael, NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. B. Steeves, Z. Fruits, I. Schick, M. Ake, Z. A. Cooper, J. Widanski, Q. Thomas, and R. Galang

11:00 AM
13B.3
A Tornado Detection Algorithm using Deep Neural Networks, Full-Resolution Polarimetric Weather Radar Data, and Explainable AI
James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. S. Veillette, S. Samsi, P. M. Stepanian, J. McDonald, and J. Y. N. Cho

11:15 AM
13B.4
Improving Nowcasting of Convective Development by Incorporating Polarimetric Radar Variables into a Deep Learning Model
Xiang Pan, Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather/MOE; Nanjing University; and K. zhao, Y. Lu, and H. Chen

11:30 AM
13B.5
Physically Constrained Deep Generative Approach to Precipitation Nowcasting
Matej Choma, Prague, Czech republic; and M. Murín, M. Troller, J. Bartel, P. Šimánek, and M. Najman

11:45 AM
13B.6
Development of a Deep Full-Scale Connected U-Net for Reflectivity Inpainting in Spaceborne Radar Blind Zones
Fraser King, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Pettersen, C. Fletcher, and A. Geiss

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