Aardvark AI weather system offers fast and accurate forecasts
A new AI weather prediction system called Aardvark Weather delivers accurate forecasts faster with thousands of times less computing power than current AI and physics-based forecasting systems.
Aardvark has been developed by researchers from Cambridge University supported by the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting.
Detailed in Nature, Aardvark is said to provide a blueprint for a completely new approach to weather forecasting with the potential to transform current practices.
Weather forecasts are currently generated through a complex set of stages, each taking several hours to run on supercomputers. The development, maintenance and deployment of these systems requires significant time and large teams of experts.
Research by Huawei, Google, and Microsoft has demonstrated that one component of this pipeline, the numerical solver - calculating how weather evolves over time - can be replaced with AI, thereby resulting in faster and more accurate predictions. This combination of AI and traditional approaches is now being deployed by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts.
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