The Universitat de València concentrates about thirty specialists in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning applied to weather forecasting, climate emulation and the generation of models of the Earth system. Organized by the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), the workshop takes place under the umbrella of the ELLIS network and the associated ELISE project.
It is the meeting ’AI for learning Weather and Climate’, which will be held from 22 to 24 July at the La Nau Cultural Center of the University of Valencia, in the framework of the H2020 ELLIS project (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) and the ELISE network (European Network of AI Excellence Centres) of European research centers in Artificial Intelligence.
AI-based tools are revolutionizing Earth and Climate Sciences, as well as the way weather predictions are made and the human response to climate events. The three-day workshop, which begins this Monday, brings together nearly thirty scientists and international experts in the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to advance weather prediction, climate emulation and earth system modeling, all’of which are critical in the fight against the effects of the climate crisis.
"Every advance in our understanding and response capacity can make a significant difference for vulnerable communities around the planet," says physicist and professor of electronic engineering at the University of Valencia (UV) Gustau Camps-Valls, a member of the meeting’s organizing committee.
Developing generic AI-based foundation models and early warning systems that integrate large amounts of data are some of the specific purposes of the workshop. "The workshop is focused on generative AI models developed and trained with satellite images, meteorological data and climate model simulations," says the scientist. "The challenge now is to endow these models with features such as interpretability, consistency or scrutiny capability, to improve predictions and the ability to suggest climate adaptation and mitigation actions," he adds. "The goal, in the end, is to make better use of AI for prediction and for the protection of resources, people and ecosystems," concludes Gustau Camps.
Specialists from the Technical University of Munich, CERN, the University of Bologna, the German Space Agency DLR, CU Boulder and INRIA, among others, are participating in the conference.
Experts in Artificial Intelligence and Climate meet at the Universitat de València to advance in weather and climate forecasting
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