Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as a principal scientist at Microsoft Research, where he led the development of Aurora. This was the groundbreaking AI foundation model for earth system forecasting. Dr. Paris Perdikaris, welcome to WeatherBrains!
Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com.
- What is Aurora and the motivation for the program? (08:15)
- Practical experience and forecasting with tropical forecasting with Aurora (12:30)
- Success stories with Aurora (14:00)
- Convection-allowing models (CAMS) (17:15)
- Convective feedback problems with models (18:45)
- Emergence of the Google DeepMind ensemble and other AI models (20:00)
- Aurora's hardware architecture and its importance (23:30)
- Continuing need of physics-based models in the age of AI (28:00)
- Ethical considerations and biases in model training data (33:30)
- Role of US agencies and potential loss of funding (37:55)
- Communicating AI forecasts to the public and the ensuing ethical issues (42:30)
- Broad risks of using AI (44:30)
- Aurora business model (58:45)
- The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:05:25)
- This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:07:25)
- E-Mail Segment (01:09:30)
- and more!
Web Sites from Episode 1022:
Penn's Predictive Intelligence Lab
Alabama Weather Network on Facebook
Picks of the Week:
James Aydelott - Dr. Cameron Nixon on YouTube: Cell Mergers and Nudgers
Jen Narramore - "Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991" by Thomas Grazulis
Rick Smith - USA Jobs
Troy Kimmel - Foghorn
Kim Klockow-McClain - Out
John Gordon - Live Recon in the Atlantic Basin
Bill Murray - Foghorn
James Spann - Weather Lab: Cyclones
The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, John Gordon, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.
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