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weather prediction seems to me like a terrific use of machine learning aka statistics. The challenge I suppose is in the data. To get perfect predictions you'
by freedomben 3y ago
weather prediction seems to me like a terrific use of machine learning aka statistics. The challenge I suppose is in the data. To get perfect predictions you'd need to have a mapping of what conditions were like 6 hours, 12 hours, etc before, and what the various outcomes were, which butterflies flapped their wings and where (this last one is a joke about how hard this data would be). Hard but not impossible. Maybe impossible. I know very little about weather data though. Is there already such a format?
- tash9 3y agoIt's been a while since I was a grad student but I think the raw station/radiosonde data is interpolated into a grid format before it's put into the standard models.
- kridsdale3 3y agoThis was also in the article. It splits the sphere surface in to 1M grids (not actually grids in the cartesian sense of a plane, these are radial units). Then there's 37 altitude layers. So there's radial-coordinate voxels that represent a low resolution of the physical state of the entire atmosphere.