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Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models with Alex Merose 2/3

CLIPS

Big models beat decades of research:

When ML Beat Physics-Based Forecasts:

Lorenz’s two-week dogma questioned:

The Tiny GNN That Shook Weather Forecasting:

EPISODE

This is episode 2/3 with Alex Merose about his thoughts on weather foundation models. He is a member of the technical staff at Open Athena. In this episode, Alex steps through ML weather models, their history and how they work.

Links to items discussed

  1. ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5): https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5

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