Machine Learning Improves Rainfall Forecasts in East Africa
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Addresses the problem of limited computational resources in East African meteorological services.
- •Proposes a cost-effective, high-resolution machine learning model (cGAN) for rainfall forecasting.
- •The model is designed to run on laptops, making it accessible to resource-constrained environments.
- •Offers higher spatial resolution compared to existing AI models.
- •Aims to improve societal resilience to weather events.
“Compared to existing state-of-the-art AI models, our system offers higher spatial resolution. It is cheap to train/run and requires no additional post-processing.”