WeatherBrains 1022: Tighter Than A Tick's Butt

<p>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!</p> <p>Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com.</p> <ul> <li>What is Aurora and the motivation for the program? (08:15)</li> <li>Practical experience and forecasting with tropical forecasting with Aurora (12:30)</li> <li>Success stories with Aurora (14:00)</li> <li>Convection-allowing models (CAMS) (17:15)</li> <li>Convective feedback problems with models (18:45)</li> <li>Emergence of the Google DeepMind ensemble and other AI models (20:00)</li> <li>Aurora's hardware architecture and its importance (23:30)</li> <li>Continuing need of phy...