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With their “nowcasts,” (rather than the less reliable “forecasts”) they have that ability “to provide probabilistic thunderstorm nowcasts for risk assessment and emergency decision making” [Abstract]
The THESPA system assigns a probability of a thunderstorm hitting a particular location at a particular time.
According to the New Scientist article “We know where you’ll be this summer” (August 29-September 4, 2009, page 17), “Existing methods merely predict a “threat area” in which a storm is likely to appear. THESPA can detect individual storms and predict their paths, so locations within the threatened area get different probabilities.”
Dr. Dance states, “Our system is more geographically specific.” [New Scientist]
The abstract states, “Results from a statistical analysis of Thunderstorm Identification, Tracking, Analysis, and Nowcasting (TITAN) tracking errors of nowcasts made near Sydney, Australia were used to specify the distribution, which is then applied to data collected from the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) Beijing 2008 Forecast Demonstration Project.”
In other words, the THESPA system was tested using records of thunderstorms near Sydney, Australia, and then applied to data from 2,394 storms around Beijing, China, during the 2008 Olympics.
The results showed that THESPA was more accurate than current methods of predicting thunderstorms.
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