Classification of volumetric storm cell patterns

Meteorological volumetric radar data are used to detect thunderstorms, storm events responsible for nearly all severe summer weather. Discriminating between different types of thunderstorms is challenge due to the high dimensionality of the data, the paucity of labeled data, and the imprecision of the labels. Several classification strategies and preprocessing techniques are tested to facilitate the discrimination between four types of storm events: wind, heavy rain, tornado and hail.