With the Atlantic hurricane season nearly over, a new champion has emerged in predicting both track and intensity of hurricanes: Google DeepMind.
"DeepMind outpaced even the gold-standard corrected consensus models as well as the National Hurricane Center’s official track forecasts this year.
The hurricane-specific model was introduced back in June and is trained on historical global weather data as well as information from global tropical cyclone records over the past 45 years.
The beauty of DeepMind and other similar data-driven, AI-based weather models is how much more quickly they produce a forecast compared to their traditional physics-based counterparts that require some of the most expensive and advanced supercomputers in the world. Beyond that, these “smart” models with their neural network architectures have the ability to learn from their mistakes and correct on-the-fly."
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