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No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides


New model that predicts global weather can run on a single desktop computer.

And the end game is nothing short of revolutionary: an entirely new way to forecast weather based on artificial intelligence that can run on a desktop computer. A lack of quality data, which establishes initial conditions, represents a major handicap for global weather forecast models. Weather balloons provide invaluable data about atmospheric conditions—readings such as temperature, dewpoints, and pressures—that cannot be captured by surface observations or satellites.

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