The return of spring in the Northern Hemisphere touches off tornado season. A tornado's twisting funnel of dust and debris seems an unmistakable sight. But that sight can be obscured to radar, the tool of meteorologists. It's hard to know exactly whe
TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory has released an open-source dataset containing thousands of radar images depicting nearly every U.S. tornado to occur in the past decade. The dataset can serve as a benchmark to enable researchers to build artificial intelligence algorithms capable of detecting and predicting tornadoes.