A Convection Nowcasting Method Based on Machine Learning

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Date (DD/MM/YYYY)</td><td class="align_center">Severe weather phenomena</td><td class="align_center">Mesoscale features</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">19/05/2017</td><td class="align_center">Heavy rainfall, maximum wind gust (20 m/s), maximum diameter of hail (1 cm)</td><td class="align_center">Shear line</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">22/05/2017</td><td class="align_center">Heavy rainfall, maximum wind gust (25 m/s)</td><td class="align_center">Trough and shear line</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">12/06/2017</td><td class="align_center">Heavy rainfall, maximum wind gust (21 m/s)</td><td class="align_center">Trough in northern China</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">20/06/2017-21/06/2017</td><td class="align_center">Thundershower (light rainfall), maximum wind gust (23 m/s)</td><td class="align_center">Cold air diffusing southward in northwesterly airflow</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">04/07/2017</td><td class="align_center">Heavy rainfall, maximum wind gust (20 m/s)</td><td class="align_center">Cyclonic vortex with shear line</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">14/07/2017</td><td class="align_center">Heavy rainfall, maximum wind gust (20 m/s), maximum diameter of hail (1 cm)</td><td class="align_center">Cyclonic vortex with shear line</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">01/08/2017</td><td class="align_center">Continuous heavy rainfall with thunder and lightning</td><td class="align_center">Typhoon trough</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Characteristics of the 7 cases.</div>

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