#tropical-cyclones

#tropical-cyclones

In early June, shortly after the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, Google unveiled a new model designed specifically to forecast the tracks and intensity of tropical cyclones. Part of the Google DeepMind suite of AI-based weather research models, the "Weather Lab" model for cyclones was a bit of an unknown for meteorologists at its launch. In a blog post at the time, Google said its new model, trained on a vast dataset that reconstructed past weather and a specialized database containing key information about hurricanes tracks, intensity, and size, had performed well during pre-launch testing.

Traditional models are designed on first physical principles, like conservation of mass, momentum and energy," he said. "Aurora, on the other hand, is not directly using those physical principles, but instead it relies on observations and data.