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Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

Key points

  • Today, Google DeepMind and Google Research are introducing WeatherNext 3, the most advanced and accurate global weather model to date, according to independent live evaluations by Brightband.
  • WeatherNext 3 generates hourly forecasts at multiple spatial resolutions, maintaining physical consistency from broad global wind patterns all the way down to local topography.
  • WeatherNext 2 (left) at 25-kilometer (0.25°) resolution vs. WeatherNext 3 (right) at a native 5-kilometer (0.05°) resolution.
  • Most AI weather models, including WeatherNext 2, are trained on data from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models.

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