A modular framework for extreme weather generation
This work aims to help society and planners with resilience planning against extreme weather events by generating realistic scenarios, which is an incremental contribution to climate change adaptation.
This paper proposes a modular framework for generating extreme weather event scenarios, specifically focusing on precipitation. The framework uses interchangeable components and shows initial comparative results between two approaches for precipitation scenario generation.
Extreme weather events have an enormous impact on society and are expected to become more frequent and severe with climate change. In this context, resilience planning becomes crucial for risk mitigation and coping with these extreme events. Machine learning techniques can play a critical role in resilience planning through the generation of realistic extreme weather event scenarios that can be used to evaluate possible mitigation actions. This paper proposes a modular framework that relies on interchangeable components to produce extreme weather event scenarios. We discuss possible alternatives for each of the components and show initial results comparing two approaches on the task of generating precipitation scenarios.