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The increased frequency and severity of extreme weather and climate events could take a million lives and cost $1,7-trillion annually by 2050, according to the Munich Reinsurance Company.

Nvidia GPUs have made a significant impact on globally adopted weather models, including those from ECMWF, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, the German Meteorological Service and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. For example, based on historical data, FourCastNet accurately predicted the temperatures on 5 July 2018, in Ouargla, Algeria — Africa’s hottest recorded day.

FourCastNet uses the latest AI advances, such as transformer models, to bridge AI and physics for groundbreaking results. It’s about 45 000-times faster than traditional NWP models. And when trained, FourCastNet consumes 12 000-times less energy to produce a forecast than the Europe-based Integrated Forecast System, a gold-standard NWP model.

 

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