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AI LLM March 13, 2026

From AI Weather Prediction to Infrastructure Resilience: A Correction-Downscaling Framework for Tropical Cyclone Impacts

Authors

You Wu, Zhenguo Wang, Naiyu Wang

Abstract

This paper addresses a missing capability in infrastructure resilience: turning fast, global AI weather forecasts into asset-scale, actionable risk. We introduce the AI-based Correction-Downscaling Framework (ACDF), which transforms coarse AI weather prediction (AIWP) into 500-m, unbiased wind fields and transmission tower/line failure probabilities for tropical cyclones. ACDF separates storm-scale bias correction from terrain-aware downscaling, preventing error propagation while restoring sub-kilometer variability that governs structural loading. Tested on 11 typhoons affecting Zhejiang, China under leave-one-storm-out evaluation, ACDF reduces station-scale wind-speed MAE by 38.8% versus Pangu-Weather, matches observation-assimilated mesoscale analyses, yet runs in 25 s per 12-h cycle on a single GPU. In the Typhoon Hagupit case, ACDF reproduced observed high-wind tails, isolated a coastal high-risk corridor, and flagged the line that failed, demonstrating actionable guidance at tower and line scales. ACDF provides an end-to-end pathway from AI global forecasts to operational, impact-based early warning for critical infrastructure.

Metadata

arXiv ID: 2603.12828
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: eess.SY
Published: 2026-03-13
Fetched: 2026-03-16 06:01

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