Claim: Google NeuralGCM AI Might Improve Climate Models
9 hours ago Eric Worrall 19 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
“… Google adds machine learning to climate models for ‘faster forecasts’ …”
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI
Google adds machine learning to climate models for ‘faster forecasts’
Tobias Mann
Sat 27 Jul 2024 // 13:27 UTC
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In a paper published in the journal Nature this week, a team from Google and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) detailed a novel approach that uses machine learning to overcome limitations in existing climate models and try to generate forecasts faster and more accurately than existing methods.
Dubbed NeuralGCM, the model was developed using historical weather data gathered by ECMWF, and uses neural networks to augment more traditional HPC-style physics simulations.
As Stephan Hoyer, one of the crew behind NeuralGCM wrote in a recent report, most climate models today make predictions by dividing up the globe into cubes 50-100 kilometers on each side and then simulating how air and moisture move within them based on known laws of physics.
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