Coupled AI and physics model improves typhoon-wave height forecasting

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Researchers in China developed a coupled AI and physics model to improve forecasting of typhoon wave heights in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The new method aims to better predict sudden large waves that threaten ships, offshore platforms, and coastal infrastructure.

Typhoons pose significant threats, with sudden, dangerous waves that endanger ships, offshore platforms and coastal infrastructure in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Current typhoon forecasting methods sometimes underestimate the largest waves during typhoons, but researchers in China have designed a new model that may offer improvements. Their new study, published in Ocean Engineering, describes how the model combines physics guidance with data-driven learning to improve typhoon forecasting.