{"id":216435,"date":"2026-05-19T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/keeping-humans-in-the-loop-improves-flood-forecasting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:55:12","slug":"keeping-humans-in-the-loop-improves-flood-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/keeping-humans-in-the-loop-improves-flood-forecasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Humans in the Loop Improves Flood Forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/keeping-humans-in-the-loop-improves-flood-forecasting\">Keeping Humans in the Loop Improves Flood Forecasting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/keeping-humans-in-the-loop-improves-flood-forecasting\">https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/keeping-humans-in-the-loop-improves-flood-forecasting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 08:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"eos.org\">eos.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Integration of Advanced Technologies:<\/strong> Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been increasingly incorporated into flood prediction systems to handle large datasets and identify complex patterns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Limitations of AI and ML:<\/strong> While AI and ML are faster and more efficient, they require extensive data and may struggle to capture rare, extreme events which traditional models are better at.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Comparison with Traditional Systems:<\/strong> Most studies evaluating AI and ML in flood forecasting use historical models, lacking real-time operational data that would be used in emergency situations which might show more limitations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Performance of Forecasters-in-the-Loop:<\/strong> A study comparing ML models to the actual flood forecasting system used at the California Nevada River Forecast Center suggests that the human-supervised approach outperforms ML systems in streamflow predictions and flood event detection.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Human Expertise Advantage:<\/strong> The study showed that human forecasters can correct errors and manage substandard data inputs, which AI and ML systems cannot do, making them more reliable for flood forecasting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Call for Mixed Approach:<\/strong> Automated forecasting in flood prediction is promising but should be supplemented with human expertise to provide the most accurate predictions and better protect communities from floods.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping Humans in the Loop Improves Flood Forecasting https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/keeping-humans-in-the-loop-improves-flood-forecasting Publish Date: 2026-05-19 08:57:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/eos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/flooded-yuba-river-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-216435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216437,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216435\/revisions\/216437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}