meteorology
data sources:
recent media & news
- {The Economist - The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting}
- AI churns out lightning-fast forecasts as good as the weather agencies’ | Science | AAAS
- GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting - Google DeepMind
- Google DeepMind’s weather AI can forecast extreme weather faster and more accurately | MIT Technology Review
- AI to take weather forecasting by storm - Met Office
- Storm Patrol | The National Endowment for the Humanities
- Can AI Do a Better Job of Predicting Deadly Floods?
- WindBorne takes the AI weather prediction crown | Semafor
- Jua raises $16M to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather | TechCrunch
- How technology pushes us into a new era of weather prediction - Blog - Xweather
learning meteorology
At some point in the 19th century, frogs were (maybe?) used to forecast the weather. Apparently this was widespread in eastern Europe for a time. Weather-forecasting frogs – The Friends of Charles Darwin
- {Development of climate science by Julia Slingo}
- {The birth of the weather forecast - BBC News}
- {Richardson’s Fantastic Forecast Factory - European Meteorological Society}
To read:
- Weather Forecasting Through the Ages
- History of the National Weather Service
- From Babylon to Google: a history of weather forecasting | UK weather | The Guardian
- NOAA 200th Foundations: Weather, Ocean, and Climate Prediction
- An Economic History of Weather Forecasting
- The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson’s Dream by Peter Lynch
- An Artist's Impression of Richardson's Fantastic Forecast Factory
- Princeton Library, Meteorology
External resources:
- Glossary of Meteorology
- Cloud Types & Weather Prediction Tips: How To Observe Sky Patterns - YouTube
Papers:
- Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding - i.e. how do we use language models to interface with tabular or n-dimensional data? Sort of related to my idea with wxql.
Notable figures
- Julia Slingo: Chief Scientist @ Met Office 2009-2016
- Syukuro "Suki" Manabe (wiki)
- Home | Janniy google research, MIT
- Tom Beucler, french researcher Tom Beucler - Google Scholar
Compiled 2024-04-21