arXiv:2606.04143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate flood forecasting is essential for mitigating disaster risks and protecting communities. However, purely data-driven machine learning models often struggle in data-scarce environments and may violate fundamental hydrological principles. Standard Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks can generate physically inconsistent predictions, particularly when extrapolating to extreme weather conditions. To address these limitations, we propose a Physics-Informed Machine Learning (PIML) framework that incorporates hydrological knowledge directly i
The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, coupled with the limitations of purely data-driven AI models, are driving the need for more robust and physically consistent flood prediction methods.
Accurate, physics-informed flood prediction is crucial for disaster risk mitigation, protecting communities, and informing urban planning and infrastructure development in the face of climate change stresses.
The integration of hydrological principles into machine learning models allows for more reliable flood forecasting, especially in data-scarce regions and for extreme weather events, moving beyond the limitations of purely data-driven approaches.
- · Hydrological modeling firms
- · Insurance companies (risk assessment)
- · Government disaster response agencies
- · Urban planners
- · Communities reliant solely on traditional flood models
- · Purely data-driven ML model developers for critical infrastructure
Improved early warning systems and more effective flood mitigation strategies will be developed.
Reduced economic losses from flood damage and fewer displaced populations globally.
Increased investment in PIML for other climate-related predictions, such as drought or extreme heat, driving a broader paradigm shift in environmental forecasting.
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