It is crucial to enhance weather prediction models due to the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters, such as hurricanes, storms, and tornadoes. These natural disasters cripple infrastructure and cause deaths if there is insufficient preparation. Weather prediction models can be improved by using AI for faster, higher-quality predictions. Government officials tasked with emergency management can invest in AI weather prediction models to receive quicker alerts of natural disasters and improve their preparedness level.
The Current Outlook
Global weather prediction models focus on the entire world so it is difficult to resolve weather conditions at the mesoscale scale (weather events in the range of tens to hundreds of kilometers). These models are low resolution so any small-scale weather events must be parameterized–that is, educated guesses must be made. Convection-allowing models (CAMs) are weather prediction models used to provide high-resolution forecasts at the mesoscale …