Typhoon and Extreme Precipitation and Wind Wave Prediction by Big Data Technology

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".

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Department of Marine Environmental Informatics, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung City 202, Taiwan
Interests: deep learning; machine learning; big data; artificial intelligence; neural network; precipitation; wind prediction; wave prediction; solar irradiation prediction

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions for a Special Issue of Atmosphere on the subject of “Typhoon and Extreme Precipitation and Wind Wave Prediction by Big Data Technology”.

Typhoons (tropical cyclones) as well as extreme events are the most destructive types of natural disasters. These severe typhoons and extreme events drastically affect the land surface and coastal areas through powerful winds and torrential rain. Nowadays, forecasting the behavior of complex typhoon systems has been a broad application domain for Big Data technology, such as machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and Hadoop parallel computing. Particularly, predictions regarding rainfall, wind, and wind-wave caused by typhoons provide critical information that can be used for flood control and advanced disaster prevention preparations.

This Special Issue focuses on applications of Big Data techniques and machine learning methodologies in the field of typhoon precipitation, wind, and wind-wave predictions. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Predictions in rainfall, wind, and wind-wave caused by typhoons and extreme events
  • Big Data technical developments in typhoon-induced problems
  • Machine learning methodologies in typhoon-induced problems
  • Deep learning methodologies in typhoon-induced problems
  • Neural network-based methodologies in typhoon-induced problems
  • Application of Hadoop framework and parallel computing
  • Case studies and analyses as well as assessments

Dr. Chih-Chiang Wei
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Precipitation prediction
  • Wind prediction
  • Wind-wave prediction
  • Typhoon, tropical cyclone, and extreme event
  • Big data technology
  • Hadoop parallel computing
  • Machine learning
  • Deep learning and deep neural networks
  • CNN, RNN, LSTM networks
  • Other advanced networks

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Typhoon Quantitative Rainfall Prediction from Big Data Analytics by Using the Apache Hadoop Spark Parallel Computing Framework
by Chih-Chiang Wei and Tzu-Hao Chou
Atmosphere 2020, 11(8), 870; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11080870 - 17 Aug 2020
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Abstract
Situated in the main tracks of typhoons in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, Taiwan frequently encounters disasters from heavy rainfall during typhoons. Accurate and timely typhoon rainfall prediction is an imperative topic that must be addressed. The purpose of this study was to develop [...] Read more.
Situated in the main tracks of typhoons in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, Taiwan frequently encounters disasters from heavy rainfall during typhoons. Accurate and timely typhoon rainfall prediction is an imperative topic that must be addressed. The purpose of this study was to develop a Hadoop Spark distribute framework based on big-data technology, to accelerate the computation of typhoon rainfall prediction models. This study used deep neural networks (DNNs) and multiple linear regressions (MLRs) in machine learning, to establish rainfall prediction models and evaluate rainfall prediction accuracy. The Hadoop Spark distributed cluster-computing framework was the big-data technology used. The Hadoop Spark framework consisted of the Hadoop Distributed File System, MapReduce framework, and Spark, which was used as a new-generation technology to improve the efficiency of the distributed computing. The research area was Northern Taiwan, which contains four surface observation stations as the experimental sites. This study collected 271 typhoon events (from 1961 to 2017). The following results were obtained: (1) in machine-learning computation, prediction errors increased with prediction duration in the DNN and MLR models; and (2) the system of Hadoop Spark framework was faster than the standalone systems (single I7 central processing unit (CPU) and single E3 CPU). When complex computation is required in a model (e.g., DNN model parameter calibration), the big-data-based Hadoop Spark framework can be used to establish highly efficient computation environments. In summary, this study successfully used the big-data Hadoop Spark framework with machine learning, to develop rainfall prediction models with effectively improved computing efficiency. Therefore, the proposed system can solve problems regarding real-time typhoon rainfall prediction with high timeliness and accuracy. Full article
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