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Extremes & hazards

Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Genesis from Mesoscale Convective Systems Using Machine Learning

Tao Zhang, Wuyin Lin, Yanluan Lin, Minghua Zhang, Haiyang Yu, Kathy Cao, Wei Xue

Weather and Forecasting · · Tsinghua University (NowcastNet)

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In one sentence. AdaBoost classifies whether mesoscale convective systems become tropical cyclones, reaching 97.2% F1 at 6 h lead and beating the genesis potential index.

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Topic
Extremes & hazards
Type
New model or method
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Time scale
6 h–3 days
Domain
Global
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/waf-d-18-0201.1 OpenAlex:W2950840445
Added
2026-10-22

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