Can AI assist us forecast excessive climate?

We’ve discovered how one can predict climate over the previous century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s ambiance and harnessing sufficient computing energy to generate international forecasts. However in simply the previous three years, AI fashions from firms like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historic climate knowledge have been releasing forecasts rivaling these created by means of conventional forecasting strategies.

This video explains the promise and challenges of those new fashions constructed on synthetic intelligence relatively than numerical forecasting, notably the flexibility to foresee excessive climate.

Further studying:

• Listed below are the papers that describe the fashions talked about within the video.
• Google’s GraphCast
• Huawei’s Pangu-Climate
• Nvidia’s FourCastNet
• Right here is the announcement of the ERA5 dataset, launched by the European Centre for Medium-Vary Climate Forecasts in 2020.
• We interviewed Aaron Hill over e-mail for this video. Hill is concerned in growing accountable AI for environmental science by way of AI2ES.
• Google has additionally developed a climate forecasting mannequin referred to as Nowcasting, which is already embedded in its climate merchandise particularly for short-term precipitation forecasts.
• Should you’re excited by studying extra concerning the historical past of how we developed climate forecasting, I’d advocate The Climate Machine by Andrew Blum.

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