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Taiwan's New Meteorology Supercomputer Comes Online! 

A new supercomputer packing 10 petaflops of processing power has come online to give Taiwan's meteorological agency more accurate and localized predictions, as well as AI-powered analysis of climate data.

New system a boost for weather agency - Taipei Times

Taiwan's New Meteorology Supercomputer Comes Online!   A new supercomputer packing 10 petaflops of processing power has come online to give Taiwan's meteorological agency more accurate and localized predictions, as well as AI-powered analysis of climate data. New system a boost for weather agency - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/02/27/2003814146

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#Artificial Intelligence now allows us to predict the weather like never before! A team from DeepMind, Google’s London-based AI lab, has developed a model that can offer immensely accurate 15-day weather forecasts, as the scientists describe in a paper published in Nature on Wednesday. 

The DeepMinders trained their tool, which they call GenCast, on 40 years of weather data made only recently available by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The center makes the world’s leading weather-prediction model—well, it did. When the DeepMind researchers tested GenCast against the center’s software, GenCast outperformed it 97.2% of the time. 
“The implications of better weather forecasts are big and wide ranging,” Ilan Price told me. He’s the DeepMind scientist who led the research. “We can ask, ‘What’s the probability of a cyclone passing through a given location? When we can better predict the track of a cyclone earlier, it means we can more easily prepare: Evacuations get more warning; the more supplies can be stockpiled.” 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14115&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

 #Science is awesome 🧬🦾🚀🤯

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Science is awesome 🧬🦾🚀🤯

#Artificial Intelligence now allows us to predict the weather like never before! A team from DeepMind, Google’s London-based AI lab, has developed a model that can offer immensely accurate 15-day weather forecasts, as the scientists describe in a paper published in Nature on Wednesday.   The DeepMinders trained their tool, which they call GenCast, on 40 years of weather data made only recently available by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The center makes the world’s leading weather-prediction model—well, it did. When the DeepMind researchers tested GenCast against the center’s software, GenCast outperformed it 97.2% of the time.  “The implications of better weather forecasts are big and wide ranging,” Ilan Price told me. He’s the DeepMind scientist who led the research. “We can ask, ‘What’s the probability of a cyclone passing through a given location? When we can better predict the track of a cyclone earlier, it means we can more easily prepare: Evacuations get more warning; the more supplies can be stockpiled.”   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14115&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg   #Science is awesome 🧬🦾🚀🤯

GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provid