Coastal states face disastrous floods and unexpected storm surges every year, with the amount of damages to life and property growing as global sea levels continue to rise. LSU researchers have developed a forecasting model using AI to track these natural disasters over 100,000 times faster than existing methods.
Over the past five years, eight post-doctoral, research and master’s students led by oceanography professor Dr. Zuo George Xue created a forecast model that calculates potential floods and storm surge levels using an advanced AI system.
“That is the beauty of AI. If this system is online, then when the next hurricane comes, within a few seconds we can finish one set of forecasts,” Xue said. “We want to generate thousands of forecasts to create the ensemble so as to better ‘bracket’ the predictions.”…