The Climate Modeling Alliance
a year ago
- #open science
- #machine learning
- #climate modeling
- CliMA's mission is to provide accurate and actionable scientific information to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
- The coalition includes scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from Caltech, MIT, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- They are building a new Earth system model leveraging computational and data sciences to learn from Earth observations.
- The model aims to improve predictions of droughts, heat waves, and rainfall extremes with unprecedented accuracy.
- CliMA is developing the first Earth system model that automatically learns from diverse data sources using machine learning.
- The modeling platform is scalable, designed for growth, and can run on supercomputers and the cloud.
- CliMA is committed to open science, with an open-source platform and public availability of results.
- The platform will support front-end apps for detailed models of flood risks, extreme heat, crop yields, etc.
- Funding is provided by private foundations and federal agencies, led by Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the National Science Foundation.