Huawei Cloud: AI Model Delivers Faster, Precise Weather Forecasts

Chinese cloud company Huawei has developed an AI-based global weather algorithm called Pangu-Weather.

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Pangu-Weather produces faster and more accurate weather forecasts than traditional methods.

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The model can provide forecasts in seconds, including humidity, wind speed, temperature, sea level pressure, and disaster warnings.

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Pangu-Weather is 10,000 times faster than the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) model.

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It focuses on medium-range forecasting, which plays a crucial role in disaster prevention.

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AI-based forecasting has been inferior to numerical weather prediction until now but has shown significant improvements with Pangu-Weather.

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The model uses new computational strategies and adapts to handle complex and uneven 3D weather data.

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It was trained using 100 epochs of hourly weather data from 1979 to 2021.

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Pangu-Weather can complete 24-hour global weather forecasts in just 1.4 seconds on a single graphics card.

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The model has demonstrated high accuracy in tracking named tropical cyclones and successfully forecasted the path of Typhoon Mawar.

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