Cambridge researchers have developed Aardvark Weather, a new AI weather prediction system. It delivers accurate forecasts ten times faster and uses thousands of times less computing power than current AI and physics-based systems.
Supported by the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Aardvark replaces the entire weather prediction pipeline with a single machine learning model. This allows predictions in minutes on a desktop computer, a significant improvement over current methods that require supercomputers and hours of processing.
Professor Richard Turner states Aardvark offers the potential to make weather forecasts faster, cheaper, more flexible and more accurate than ever before.