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The original premise of ClimaCell as I understood when hearing about a few years ago was to utilize cellular cells (hence ClimaCell) to acquire information abou
by hagsh 6y ago
The original premise of ClimaCell as I understood when hearing about a few years ago was to utilize cellular cells (hence ClimaCell) to acquire information about the levels of humidity in the air, thus providing a cellular cell level immediate forecast. I believe they have expanded that to satellite communications and more.
- cryptoz 6y agoThere is an enormous amount of latent weather data to be extracted from existing sources and they, I think, are doing a great job finding and using them. I am also working on similar efforts, focused on using labelled photos of the sky with ML to extract weather data from outdoor photos, and using barometers in phones: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearweather.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe... I'm shocked there aren't more efforts in this space. I know IBM is using barometers in phones now, and I suppose Apple may try that post-Dark Sky acquisition, but I'm still surprised there aren't more!
- wlesieutre 6y agoPressureNET (now defunct) was the earliest crowdsourcing phone barometer platform that I remember hearing about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PressureNET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PressureNET
- cryptoz 6y agoYeah, that one was me :) All Clear is my latest attempt. It's a hard nut to crack.
- jim_and_derrick 6y agoI have to say what benefit do you think that having all of these phone pressure measurements will bring to society? Does it help forecasting? Ive heard that we could use them as initial conditions for forecasting. which is cool, but i'm not sure the whole 'crowd source surface pressure obs' is really that important or impactful.
- jschwartzi 6y agoI would be totally okay with this if it means we can predict when thunderstorms will start in our mountain passes.
- lowwave 6y agoNice! Did they modify the cell towers with humidity sensors? Please share any links if you can. This would make their data to be more high resolution.