UCI Team Wins Best Paper for Open-Sourcing Massive Climate Dataset for AI Research
• Interdisciplinary team including UCI climate and data scientists wins best paper award for "ClimSim" climate dataset at prominent AI conference
• ClimSim is the largest ever data compendium for machine learning-enhanced climate research, with 5.7 billion input/output pairs
• Models local physical characteristics' influence on climate simulator's physical state across globe over time
• Open-sourced dataset allows thousands of AI researchers worldwide to apply machine learning to climate science
• Award shows machine learning community's increasing interest in climate science applications