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#114: One Nepali Gauge Recorded Nine Metres in Thirty Minutes, MIT Generates the Storm That Never Happened, $16M Lands on AI Evaluation
Impact Signals #114: One Nepali Gauge Recorded Nine Metres in Thirty Minutes, MIT Generates the Storm That Never Happened, $16M Lands on AI Evaluation Today is about instruments and the people who read them. In Nepal's Rasuwa district, ICIMOD's technical assessment of the Bhote Koshi flash flood found that the monitoring stations nearest the impact were destroyed by the surge they existed to measure, leaving one surviving gauge at Galchchi to record a nine-metre rise in roughly thirty minutes. MIT published a generative method in Nature Communications that produces a plausible 300-millimetre…
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