GenCast: High-Precision AI Weather Forecasting
date
Dec 6, 2024
damn
language
en
status
Published
type
Products
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tags
AI
Weather Forecasting
Machine Learning
Google DeepMind
summary
GenCast is an innovative AI weather forecasting model developed by Google DeepMind, providing accurate weather predictions for up to 15 days. It outperforms existing models by analyzing historical data and generating complex probability distributions. Ideal for meteorologists, data scientists, and organizations focused on extreme weather alerts, GenCast promises to enhance weather prediction accuracy significantly.
Product Introduction
GenCast is a high-resolution AI ensemble model developed by Google DeepMind, designed to offer high-precision weather forecasts for up to 15 days. It utilizes advanced diffusion models to outperform traditional forecasting systems, providing faster and more accurate predictions on daily weather and extreme weather events.
Key Features
- High-Precision Forecasts: Offers weather forecasts with a resolution of 0.25°, significantly enhancing accuracy.
- Comparison with ENS: More accurate than the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ENS), outperforming it in 97.2% of test targets.
- Ensemble Predictions: Combines 50 or more forecasts to represent potential weather trajectories, improving reliability.
- Adaptation to Earth's Geometry: Learns accurate probability distributions for future scenarios by adapting to the spherical geometry of the Earth.
- Historical Data Usage: Trained on 40 years of historical weather data from ECMWF's ERA5 dataset.
- Rapid Prediction Generation: Capable of generating a 15-day forecast in just 8 minutes using a single Google Cloud TPU v5.
Product Data
- Forecast Range: Up to 15 days
- Resolution: 0.25°
- Training Dataset: 40 years of ECMWF's ERA5 data
- Performance: Outperforms ENS in 97.2% of cases, especially beyond 36 hours
- Prediction Time: 15-day forecast in 8 minutes