Google wants to help with preventive measures by using artificial intelligence to improve hurricane forecasting. To this end, it is offering a new experimental model, an interactive website for viewing its Artificial Intelligence (AI) weather models, in partnership with the US National Hurricane Center..

The technology company says that cyclones are very sensitive, even to small differences in atmospheric conditions. Due to the scarcity of data, they are difficult to predict accurately. Google's mission is to improve weather forecasting, which it believes will have a major impact on protecting communities.

According to a Sapo NewsThe experimental model for cyclones addresses the main challenges associated with predicting these phenomena. It can predict the formation, trajectory, intensity and size of a cyclone. It also generates up to 50 possible scenarios, up to 15 days in advance.

Google says that, according to internal tests and evaluations by the Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Research (CIRA), the model has a capacity comparable "or superior" to the best physics-based operational models used to predict cyclone trajectories and intensity.

The website, which has been named Weather Labis in public preview, to show real-time cyclone forecasts as well as the history of different AI weather models (WeatherNext Graph, WeatherNext Gen) along with physics-based models from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

Google also has a partnership with the US National Hurricane Center, which assesses the risk of hurricanes in the Atlantic and East Pacific basins, to scientifically evaluate the technology's approach and its results.

CIRA, the Met Office in the UK, the University of Tokyo, Weathernews Inc. in Japan are other partners who have collaborated to improve Google's AI models.

Tropical cyclones are responsible for the trail of destruction they leave in their wake, but also for the lives of many victims. According to data shared by Google, in the last 50 years they have been responsible for taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, as well as causing damage to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars, according to World Meteorological Organization.

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