TCBench Alpha¶

Synthetic-backed storm-track benchmark adapter aligned to the TCBench Alpha ecosystem.

Overview¶

TCBench Alpha is the public storm adapter used by several tropical cyclone baselines on the shared track-intensity evaluator.

The current implementation is synthetic-backed, but it preserves the task, metric, and reporting surface used by the shared tropical cyclone benchmark.

At a Glance¶

Provider	TCBench Alpha ecosystem surfaced through a PyHazards adapter
Hazard Family	Tropical Cyclone
Source Role	Track Benchmark
Coverage	Benchmark-aligned tropical cyclone track and intensity samples
Geometry	Storm-track history sequences
Spatial Resolution	Storm-centered best-track sequences
Temporal Resolution	Historical track windows with forecast horizons
Update Cadence	Generated locally for smoke and benchmark-alignment runs
Period of Record	Synthetic-backed benchmark adapter
Formats	PyTorch tensors via the dataset registry
Registry Entry	`tcbench_alpha`

Data Characteristics¶

Storm-history sequences with future latitude, longitude, and intensity targets.
Registry-backed benchmark adapter rather than a raw external benchmark ingestion path.
Intended for benchmark-linked track-intensity forecasting runs.

Typical Use Cases¶

Tropical Cyclone MLP, SAF-Net, and TCIF-fusion smoke tests.
Shared tropical cyclone benchmark runs.
Regression checks for storm-track baselines.

Access¶

Use the links below to access the upstream source or its public documentation.

TCBench Alpha repository

PyHazards Usage¶

Use this adapter when you want the public TCBench Alpha-aligned storm surface exposed by the tropical cyclone benchmark.

Registry Workflow¶

Primary dataset name: tcbench_alpha

from pyhazards.datasets import load_dataset

data = load_dataset(
    "tcbench_alpha",
    micro=True,
    history=6,
    horizon=5,
).load()

train = data.get_split("train")
print(train.inputs.shape, train.targets.shape)

Inspection Workflow¶

This dataset is currently surfaced as a registry-backed benchmark adapter, so there is no standalone inspection CLI documented for it.

Notes¶

This is a synthetic-backed benchmark adapter rather than a full TCBench Alpha ingestion pipeline.

Reference¶

TCBench Alpha.