Nvidia Launches AI Technologies to Aid Weather Forecasting

Nvidia Corp. is offering new open-source software and models designed to help governments and businesses more easily use artificial intelligence and complex data to build their own weather forecasting systems.

The chipmaker’s new Earth-2 platform includes a pair of AI-based weather models designed to generate more accurate two-week weather predictions and “nowcasts,” ultra short-term insights into where storms and other severe weather might have an impact six hours in advance, Nvidia said Monday in a statement.

Earth-2 also includes a new data assimilation model the company said rapidly computes key snapshots of the planet’s temperature, wind and air pressure — ...