Abstracts: Aurora with Megan Stanley and Wessel Bruinsma
This is such exciting work about environmental forecasting, so we’re happy to have the two of you join us today.
Megan and Wessel, welcome.
MEGAN STANLEY: Thank you. Thanks. Great to be here.
WESSEL BRUINSMA: Thanks.
TINGLE: Let’s jump right in. Wessel, share a bit about the problem your research addresses and why this work is so important.
BRUINSMA: I think we’re all very much aware of the revolution that’s happening in the space of large language models, which have just become so strong. What’s perhaps lesser well-known is that machine learning models have also started to revolutionize this field of weather prediction. Whereas traditional weather prediction models, based on physical laws, used to be the state of the art, these traditional models are