discovery · Source published 2023-11-14
A faster view of the weather.
GraphCast produced skillful medium-range global weather forecasts using a learned model.
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discovery · Source published 2023-07-05
Weather in three dimensions.
Pangu-Weather demonstrated medium-range forecasting with three-dimensional neural networks.
discovery · Source published 2025-08-22
A weather-model test ran faster on NOAA’s new research computer.
NOAA EPIC reports that one named Unified Forecast System regression test ran about 30–40% faster on Ursa than on Hera under the Intel compiler—a development result, not evidence of a more accurate forecast.
guide · Source published date unknown
What “12 hours earlier” means in a space-weather forecast
The clock starts before a solar active region becomes visible. It does not promise twelve extra hours before every flare reaches Earth.
discovery · Source published 2024-12-04
Forecasting more than one future.
GenCast used machine learning to generate ensembles of possible weather outcomes up to 15 days ahead.
discovery · Source published 2024-07-22
Physics meets learning.
NeuralGCM combined atmospheric physics with machine learning for weather and climate modeling.
discovery · Source published 2025-01-24
A field image that asks for less tilling.
A study combined image-based tillage classification, soil sensors, weather, slope, and crop inputs to recommend tilling intensity and fertilizer amount; authors report stationary prototypes deployed on 155 farms across five countries.
discovery · Source published 2025-12-17
A world-class forecast now fits on one machine.
Weather forecasting has spent fifty years as one of the largest users of supercomputing. AI models trained on the archive now produce comparable global forecasts in minutes, and the weights are published. The measurements they depend on are the part that has not become cheap.
discovery · Source published 2026-09-14
The forecast competition leaves its data open.
ECMWF released JJA 2026 forecast files and regional scores for an open framework comparing AI and hybrid subseasonal weather systems.
discovery · Source published 2026-06-16
A grower sees water stress before walking the field.
İmeceMobil analyzes satellite imagery for crop and water conditions and sends local weather and pest alerts; one grower reported reducing a three-to-four-hour task to about 45 minutes.
discovery · Source published 2019-05-01
A hybrid cooling system cut direct water use at an operating national-laboratory data center.
DOE reports that NREL’s thermosyphon hybrid system avoided 2.10 million gallons over two years and cut data-center water use in half by using dry heat rejection when weather allowed while retaining a cooling tower for peak conditions.
discovery · Source published 2026-10-14
A better forecast can start by learning its own mistakes.
New research shows how machine learning can improve the odds in three- and four-week weather outlooks by correcting forecasts that already exist.
discovery · Source published 2025-12-02
More time to decide when to plant.
India's Agriculture Ministry reported that a Kharif 2025 pilot sent local monsoon-onset forecasts by SMS to 38,845,214 farmers in 13 states, using a blend that included NeuralGCM, ECMWF AIFS, and 125 years of India Meteorological Department rainfall data.
discovery · Source published 2026-09-03
A global forecast that can refresh with the hour.
Google DeepMind announced WeatherNext 3 with hourly refreshes, higher-resolution precipitation and clean-energy variables, and integration into Google products.
discovery · Source published 2026-08-18
A flood map reaches places without gauges.
Google describes Flood Hub coverage in 150 countries for more than two billion people and Groundsource's use of public disaster reports to extend urban flash-flood forecasting.
discovery · Source published 2026-08-14
A twelve-hour earlier clue to where the Sun may change.
NASA reports that a COFFIES machine-learning model can predict the appearance of solar active regions, including far-side emergence, up to 12 hours before they appear.
discovery · Source published 2026-07-06
A city-owned reuse loop cut one data-center campus’s demand for potable groundwater.
Quincy owns and operates a reuse utility financed by Microsoft. EPA estimates that recirculating cooling-water blowdown avoids 138 million gallons a year of potable-groundwater demand; the loop still needs canal and groundwater make-up water.
discovery · Source published 2026-07-16
A township requires data-center sound to be modeled, measured after startup, and corrected when limits are missed.
East Brandywine Township’s July 2026 ordinance requires qualified preconstruction modeling and an as-built study within 180 days, including peak cooling, generators under load, low-frequency sound, calibration records, corrective action and retesting.
source-report · Source published 2025-07-16
Following the clues after a storm overflow
United Utilities announced the rollout of its Overflow Investigation Tool, which uses real-time data, rainfall information, hydraulic modelling, and operational histories to investigate causes of storm overflows.
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From observation to warning.
Follow what changes between observing the atmosphere, estimating its state, forecasting and making a human decision.