2024-03-21 20:07:00
NVIDIA announces digital twin of Earth’s climate
Weather Company and the Taiwan Meteorological Administration are among the first to adopt the new Earth-2 Cloud APIs, using AI to accelerate the creation of high-resolution simulations and visualization of global climate and weather at an innovative 2-kilometer scale
To accelerate efforts to combat the $140 billion in economic losses due to extreme weather driven by climate change, NVIDIA announces its Earth-2 climate digital twin cloud platform to simulate and visualize weather and climate on a massive scale. precedents.
Earth-2 Cloud APIs
Part of the separately announced NVIDIA CUDA-X™ microservices, the new Earth-2 Cloud APIs in NVIDIA DGX Cloud™ enable virtually any user to create AI-powered emulations to accelerate the delivery of interactive, high-resolution simulations ranging from the global atmosphere and local cloud cover for typhoons and turbulence.
“Climate disasters are now normal: historic droughts, catastrophic hurricanes, and generational floods appear in the news with alarming frequency,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “The Earth-2 Cloud APIs strive to help us better prepare for – and inspire us to take action to moderate – extreme weather.”
Innovative generative AI for climate technology
Earth-2 APIs provide AI models and employ a new NVIDIA generative AI model called CorrDiff, using state-of-the-art diffusion modeling, which generates images with 12.5x higher resolution than current numerical models, 1,000x more Fast and 3,000x more energy efficient. It corrects coarse-resolution forecast inaccuracies and synthesizes critical metrics for decision making. CorrDiff is a first-of-its-kind generative AI model to provide super-resolution, synthesize new metrics of interest to stakeholders, and learn fine-scale local climate physics from high-resolution datasets.
The Taiwan Central Meteorological Administration plans to use these diffusion models to predict more accurate typhoon arrival locations. When a typhoon warning is issued, the priority is to minimize casualties by carrying out early evacuations based on quality information generated by relevant agencies, including Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR). Over the past decade, the death toll from typhoons has fallen.
“Taiwan is a critical component of the global supply chain, and flood risk analysis and evacuation preparedness are central to our mandate,” says Chia-Ping Cheng, administrator of CWA. With more than 136 typhoons hitting the island since 2000, using Earth-2 to mitigate these impacts is critical to improving the quality and resolution of disaster informatics, the NCDR said.
Another important component of the Earth-2 Cloud APIs is NVIDIA Omniverse™ a computing platform that enables individuals and teams to develop 3D workflows and applications based on Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD).
A Weather Company parceira no Earth-2
A Weather Company, a global leader in forecasting and weather data insights, plans to integrate its Weatherverse weather data and tools with Omniverse, enabling customers creating digital twins to better understand and visualize the impact of real-world weather conditions for the first time. The Weather Company also plans to explore the use of NVIDIA’s score-based generative AI for its Weatherverse services, Weather Engine solution for enterprise-grade weather intelligence, and new high-resolution weather modeling products.
“To help effectively address current and future climate-related challenges, it is critical now more than ever to incorporate reliable, global-scale real weather data and insights into digital twin environments to better analyze, plan and simulate the impacts of the climate”, highlights Sheri Bachstein, CEO of The Weather Company. “We have worked with NVIDIA for years on GPU acceleration of GRAF, our proprietary climate modeling systems, and plan to adopt Earth-2 APIs to create higher-resolution, energy-efficient simulations at a lower cost.”
Other early adopters of Earth-2 APIs include weather analytics platform companies like Spire and Meteomatics, which can leverage their proprietary data sources and data assimilation to produce accurate forecasts, as well as startups Tomorrow.io, north.io and ClimaSens, who are exploring new solutions for climate technology applications.
“We are facing an unprecedented opportunity to use technology as an ally in mitigating the impacts of climate change and preventing natural disasters. With NVIDIA’s Earth-2 climate digital twin cloud platform, we can significantly accelerate our efforts to combat economic losses from extreme weather. This is a great advance for our environment”, adds Marcio Aguiar, director of NVIDIA’s Enterprise division for Latin America.
DGX Cloud-Based Computing Enables Earth-2
Earth-2 APIs use DGX Cloud to provide full-stack acceleration for climate and weather solutions. This includes AI pipelines ideal for models like FourCastNet, GraphCast, and Deep Learning Weather Prediction. It also includes GPU acceleration of numerical weather prediction models like ICON on the latest NVIDIA Grace Hopper™ systems. Running on NVIDIA DGX GH200, HGX™ H100 and OVX™ supercomputers, Earth-2 can provide a path to simulate and visualize global climate simulations at unprecedented speed and scale.
About NVIDIA
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 spurred the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ushered in the era of modern AI, and has helped industrial digitization across markets. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing infrastructure company with data center-scale solutions that are disrupting the industry.
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