ML4WX

Extremes & hazards

A machine learning approach for prediction of seasonal lightning density in different lightning regions of India

Chandrani Chatterjee, Joyjit Mandal, Saurabh Das

International Journal of Climatology ·

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In one sentence. Random forest regionalizes India into seven lightning climatologies and predicts seasonal lightning density from CAPE and humidity, with R² of 0.81 in monsoon.

Labels

Topic
Extremes & hazards, Climate analysis & attribution
Type
New model or method
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Time scale
Seasonal to annual
Domain
Regional
Data
ERA5 / reanalysis, Other
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1002/joc.8005 OpenAlex:W4316041049
Added
2026-10-22

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