Making accurate weather predictions is a challenging problem that has resisted millenniums of effort.
But researchers hope AI could revolutionize weather forecasting.
“For example, utilities are using AI to identify and predict grid resiliency and potential outages.”
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The company calls the technique “nowcasting” because it’s so timely.
“Conceptually, this is a problem of generating radar movies.
Predicting Chaos
Weather is a chaotic process that’s difficult to predict with precision.
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But, he said, weather models need to be run frequently as the environment changes for accurate forecasting.
Spire Global is one company that’s already using AI programs to enhance forecasts.
ThePredictWind program provides wind forecaststo maritime and leisure sporting users by processing satellite data with computer algorithms.
Computing power has been a bottleneck for weather forecasting.
As a result, some of the most powerful supercomputershave been builtspecifically to crunch forecasting numbers.
The AI method is similar to how stock market investors watch patterns over long periods, Shaji pointed out.
“Deep learning has more accuracy,” he added.
“The predictive accuracy and capability of models will only become better in the future.”
