{"id":132407,"date":"2021-12-14T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/artificial-intelligence-can-create-better-lightning-forecasts"},"modified":"2021-12-14T14:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:22:56","slug":"artificial-intelligence-can-create-better-lightning-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/artificial-intelligence-can-create-better-lightning-forecasts","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence can create better lightning forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-can-create-better-lightning-forecasts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lightning is one of the most destructive forces of nature, as in 2020 when it sparked the massive California Lightning Complex fires, but it remains hard to predict. A new study led by the University of Washington shows that machine learning\u2014computer algorithms that improve themselves without direct programming by humans\u2014can be used to improve lightning forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>Better lightning forecasts could help to prepare for potential wildfires, improve safety warnings for lightning and create more accurate long-range climate models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best subjects for machine learning are things that we don\u2019t fully understand. And what is something in the atmospheric sciences field that remains poorly understood? Lightning,\u201d said Daehyun Kim, a UW associate professor of atmospheric sciences. \u201cTo our knowledge, our work is the first to demonstrate that machine learning algorithms can work for lightning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning is one of the most destructive forces of nature, as in 2020 when it sparked the massive California Lightning Complex fires, but it remains hard to predict. A new study led by the University of Washington shows that machine learning\u2014computer algorithms that improve themselves without direct programming by humans\u2014can be used to improve lightning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}