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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-147
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-147
19 Apr 2022
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Classification of tropical cyclone containing images using a convolutional neural network: performance and sensitivity to the learning dataset

Sébastien Gardoll and Olivier Boucher

Abstract. Tropical cyclones (TCs) are one of the most devastating natural disasters, which justifies monitoring and prediction on short and long timescales in the context of a changing climate. In this study, we have adapted and tested a convolutional neural network for the classification of reanalysis outputs according to the presence or absence of TCs. We use a number of meteorological variables to form TC-containing and background images from both the ERA5 and MERRA-2 reanalyses. The presence of TCs is labelled from the HURDAT2 dataset. Special attention was paid on the design of the background image set to make sure it samples similar location and time to the TC-containing image. We have assessed the performance of the CNN using accuracy but also the more objective AUC and AUPRC metrics. Many failed classifications can be explained by the meteorological context, such as a situation with cyclonic activity but not yet classified as TC by HURDAT2. We also tested the impact of interpolation and of mix and match the training and test image sets on the performance of the CNN. We showed that applying an ERA5-trained CNN on MERRA-2 images works better than applying a MERRA-2 trained CNN on ERA5 images.

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16 Sep 2022
Classification of tropical cyclone containing images using a convolutional neural network: performance and sensitivity to the learning dataset
Sébastien Gardoll and Olivier Boucher
Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 7051–7073, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7051-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7051-2022, 2022
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Sébastien Gardoll and Olivier Boucher

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Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-147', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 May 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Sébastien Gardoll, 22 Jul 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-147', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 May 2022
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Sébastien Gardoll, 22 Jul 2022

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-147', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 May 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Sébastien Gardoll, 22 Jul 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-147', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 May 2022
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Sébastien Gardoll, 22 Jul 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Sébastien Gardoll on behalf of the Authors (22 Jul 2022)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 Jul 2022) by Po-Lun Ma
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Aug 2022)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (16 Aug 2022)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 Aug 2022) by Po-Lun Ma
AR by Sébastien Gardoll on behalf of the Authors (31 Aug 2022)  Author's response   Manuscript 

Journal article(s) based on this preprint

16 Sep 2022
Classification of tropical cyclone containing images using a convolutional neural network: performance and sensitivity to the learning dataset
Sébastien Gardoll and Olivier Boucher
Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 7051–7073, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7051-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7051-2022, 2022
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Sébastien Gardoll and Olivier Boucher

Sébastien Gardoll and Olivier Boucher

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Tropical cyclones (TCs) are one of the most devastating natural disasters, which justifies monitoring and prediction in the context of a changing climate. In this study, we have adapted and tested a convolutional neural network for the classification of reanalysis outputs (ERA5 and MERRA-2 labelled by HURDAT2) according to the presence or absence of TCs. We tested the impact of interpolation and of mix and match the training and test sets on the performance of the CNN.