NASA Podcast: How Open Science and AI Are Advancing Hurricane Research 

Editor's Note: This new episode of NASA's Curious Universe podcast is an interesting look at how AI modeling and data science are driving hurricane research. NASA and NOAA are building foundation models for climate research trained with the petabytes of Earth and space data the organizations collect. This includes the “Prithvi Weather and Climate AI model,” an open access foundation model from IBM trained with NASA data.

Nov. 13, 2024 -- As climate change drives more frequent and intense tropical cyclones and hurricanes, coastal communities desperately need better tools to predict how bad storms will be and when and where they’ll strike—and to assess the damage afterward. From the air and in space, NASA and NOAA collect critical data as storms roll in. But what happens next? Fly directly into the eye of the storm with daring hurricane hunter pilots, meet meteorologists and data scientists building AI models to improve hurricane prediction, and join the disaster response experts helping cities pinpoint their hardest-hit neighborhoods. Plus, learn how NASA is making data open to everyone—including you, with Transform to Open Science.

Listen to the episode or read a transcript at this link.

Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe         

Get curious with NASA. As an official NASA podcast, Curious Universe brings you mind-blowing science and space adventures you won’t find anywhere else. Explore the cosmos alongside astronauts, scientists, engineers, and other top NASA experts who are achieving remarkable feats in science, space exploration, and aeronautics. Learn something new about the wild and wonderful universe we share. All you need to get started is a little curiosity. 

NASA’s Curious Universe is an official NASA podcast hosted by Padi Boyd and Jacob Pinter.

Source: NASA