OMB Individually Reported

Refining Flood Risk Predictions in Hawai?i with Generative Machine Learning

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Description

While global climate models (GCMs) offer climate projections, their coarse spatial resolution does not allow regional characteristics to be captured accurately, which are details crucial for managing risks related to climate hazards like floods, droughts, and heatwaves.

Detailed example

This project will use these generative AI advancements to create high-resolution (1km) daily and sub-daily precipitation maps for the Hawaiian Islands and use these maps to quantify the risk of flooding events.

AI / analytics pattern

Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).

Automation level / stage

a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.

Expected benefit

Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence (AI) with neural networks offer new possibilities for for statistical downscaling.

Controls / human review

ATO: No; PIA: Not published