Climate Science and AI in Big Tech

Big tech companies are increasing their efforts to build infrastructure for geospatial and climate science research. For instance, Microsoft provides ready-to-use datasets and tools for researchers and industry on its cloud platform (Microsoft Planetary Computer) and NVIDIA is creating a digital twin and AI models for better climate and weather forecasting (Earth-2 & FourCastNet). In parallel, initiatives such as the Pangeo Project have pursued a community-driven model, developing open-source, platform-agnostic software and infrastructure to enable big data geoscience research. In this webinar, we take a deep dive into these efforts and their implications for our ability to address outstanding grand challenges in climate science. Speakers include Dr. Alberto Arribas Herranz (Microsoft Research), Dr. Karthik Kashinath (NVIDIA Research), and Dr. Ryan Abernathey (Pangeo).