ML4WX

Extremes & hazards

Interpretable Deep Learning for Spatial Analysis of Severe Hailstorms

David John Gagne II, Sue Ellen Haupt, Douglas W. Nychka, Gregory Thompson

Monthly Weather Review · · NSF NCAR / UCAR

Paper

In one sentence. A CNN outperforms logistic regression at predicting severe hail from convection-allowing NWP fields, and interpretation reveals learned storm and environment features consistent with hail physics.

Labels

Topic
Extremes & hazards, Explainability, uncertainty & physics
Type
New model or method
Method
CNN / U-Net
Time scale
6 h–3 days
Domain
Regional
Data
NWP analysis or forecasts (IFS, GFS, ...)
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/mwr-d-18-0316.1 OpenAlex:W2947707259
Added
2026-10-22

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