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Can Machine Learning Solve Climate Physics? 🌍📊

A new review paper, "Machine Learning for Climate Physics and Simulations", dives into how ML is reshaping our understanding of climate systems. Written by a powerhouse team of researchers—including Ching-Yao Lai (Stanford), Pedram Hassanzadeh, Aditi Sheshadri, and more—the paper explores how ML accelerates discoveries and overcomes key challenges in climate physics.

💡 Key Highlights:
1️⃣ Data-Informed Discovery: ML techniques uncover hidden patterns in climate data, optimize models, and improve state estimations for dynamic systems. Think Physics-Informed Neural Networks and Ensemble Kalman Inversion delivering next-level precision.

2️⃣ Simulations Made Faster: From subgrid-scale modeling to emulators like FourCastNet and ClimateBench, ML reduces the computational burden while maintaining accuracy. Symmetry-aware neural networks are even improving generalizability.

🔥 Why It Matters:
Machine learning isn't just speeding up simulations—it’s tackling some of the hardest problems in climate science, like predicting extreme events and modeling large-scale ocean and atmospheric dynamics.

📝 Dive deeper:

• Published paper

• Arxiv

This is a major leap for AI4Climate—combining machine learning and physics to address the planet’s most pressing challenges.

Google’s Solar API is Scaling Solar Potential 🌞🏠

Google Research is expanding the reach of its Solar API to accelerate the global transition to renewable energy. Using a combination of satellite imagery, Digital Surface Models (DSMs), and deep learning, their latest work significantly improves solar potential estimates for buildings—particularly in areas with limited aerial coverage.

🛰️ What’s New?

• High-resolution 25cm DSMs and precise roof segmentation.

• Deep learning models trained on satellite and aerial datasets to predict solar potential.

• Solutions to challenges like lower-resolution imagery and oblique views.

🔍 Why It Matters:
Google’s Solar API can now provide accurate solar insights worldwide, even in regions with limited geographic data. This is a major boost for promoting solar adoption and fighting climate change.

📖 Dive into the details:

• Paper: Satellite Sunroof on arXiv

• Learn More: Google Research Post

Big strides for AI and sustainability. The sun has never looked so promising ☀️.

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Tool of the Day

• Silurian (YC S24): Foundation models to simulate Earth, starting with weather.

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Paper of the Day

• Machine Learning for Climate Physics and Simulations (link)

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