ML4WX

Extremes & hazards

Forecasting Severe Weather with Random Forests

Aaron J. Hill, Gregory R. Herman, Russ S. Schumacher

Monthly Weather Review · · Colorado State University (incl. CIRA)

Paper

In one sentence. Random forests trained on GEFS reforecasts give calibrated Day 1-3 severe weather outlooks that beat SPC at Days 2-3, and blending with SPC improves Day 1 outlooks.

Labels

Topic
Extremes & hazards, Post-processing & calibration
Type
Evaluation or intercomparison of existing models
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Time scale
6 h–3 days
Domain
Regional
Data
NWP analysis or forecasts (IFS, GFS, ...)
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/mwr-d-19-0344.1 OpenAlex:W3014703899
Added
2026-10-22

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