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The Earth Machine or Marvelous models

With cash from tech philanthropists, science insurgents plot climate models driven by artificial intelligence. … “Always the idea was to go to an Earth system model,” says MIT physical oceanographer Raffaele Ferrari. … It can solve equations to various degrees of accuracy in the same model, which should allow the Earth Machine to give a low-resolution overview of the planet while zooming in on clouds in real time.

By Paul Voosen Jul 25th, 2018