English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather Model for Desktops

Re:English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather ... by mschuster91 on Monday March 24, 2025 @03:21AM (#43458371)

> Is there a big Clearinghouse for this data?

Many commercial and even third party governments rely on the data from NOAA and its archives, on top of that the EU runs its own EUMETSAT fleet of data, plus a ton of national services - unfortunately, the result is there's a looooot of datasets.

NOAA's dataset is public domain [1], EUMETSAT only requires attribution for most of its data [2]. On top of that you got the EU's Climate Data store [3], ECMWF [4], and ECA&D [5].

The service that many private weather services provide is to aggregate and weigh all of the publicly available datasets, and some also add in data from their own ground stations, commercially licensed "realtime" data from governmental services, and their own models as well.

The interesting question is what DOGE will do regarding NOAA - it is increasingly possible that NOAA will shut down, either to be turned into a pay-for-play model, replaced by private services, or just carelessly dropped in its entirety.

[1] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive

[2] https://user.eumetsat.int/resources/user-guides/data-registr...

[3] https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/

[4] https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets

[5] https://www.ecad.eu/dailydata/

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Re:English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather ... by Loughla on Monday March 24, 2025 @07:45AM (#43459811)

NOAA saves lives. Cutting that organization would be an absolute slap in the face to rural trump voters who rely on that system for weather alerts.

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Re:English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather ... by sunshinesnacks on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:12AM (#43460055)

> The service that many private weather services provide is to aggregate and weigh all of the publicly available datasets

Yes, and more people need to understand this. Too many people seem to think that commercial services won’t be impacted if NOAA stops doing what they do.

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Re:English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather ... by K0balt on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:14AM (#43460077)

NOAA marine forecasts and FAA integration is critical infrastructure for marine transportation and aviation. If they shut that down it will result in direct losses much larger than NOAAs budget, and thousands of lives lost through disaster and workplace accidents.

I sure hope those “smart” people are capable of understanding that.

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Re:English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather ... by mschuster91 on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:30AM (#43460279)

> I sure hope those “smart” people are capable of understanding that.

Well, NOAA can be privatized, sold off to the highest bidder and be fed money from the annual government to provide said critical infrastructure.

In the end, it's always one giant ass grift.

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