Posted 1/31/2024, 7:24:28 PM
AI Boosts Forecasting to Clear the Air on Growing Wildfire Smoke Threat
- Wildfires are increasing globally, releasing harmful smoke pollution into the air that impacts health and environment.
- Researchers are using AI to create higher-resolution, more accurate predictions of smoke plume movements to protect populations.
- Current models are complex and computationally demanding to run multiple variations for ensemble forecasting.
- The new deep learning model efficiently simulates ensembles while using less data and timesteps to speed up processing.
- By analyzing faster, the AI-assisted model has achieved 10-day forecasts mirroring ground truth data and enables higher resolution forecasting.