Aurora Forecasting
A flexible 3D foundation model of the atmosphere.
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In the news | The Seattle Times
Can AI spot the next bomb cyclone far in advance? Microsoft hopes so
Microsoft unveiled Aurora in June, an AI model that draws on atmospheric data. The company said in a blog post introducing the model that a team of researchers developed it to forecast in the most challenging conditions, for regions without…
In the news | Nature
Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world
An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Microsoft can accurately forecast weather and air pollution for the whole world — and it does it in less than a minute. The model, called Aurora, is one of a slew of AI…
Introducing Aurora: The first large-scale foundation model of the atmosphere
| Wessel Bruinsma, Megan Stanley, Ana Lucic, Richard Turner, and Paris Perdikaris
Aurora, a new AI foundation model from Microsoft Research, can transform our ability to predict and mitigate extreme weather events and the effects of climate change by enabling faster and more accurate weather forecasts than ever before.