Update on Weather Prediction

In an earlier post I suggested that deep neural nets could make better weather forecasts than the physics based models that are traditionally used. It turns out I wasn't the only person to have this idea, at least three groups have implemented something along these lines and it looks promising:

• FourCastNet: A Global Data-Driven High-Resolution Weather Model Using Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators
• Compressing Multidimensional Weather and Climate Data into Neural Networks
• Pangu-Weather: A 3D High-Resolution System for Fast and Accurate Global Weather Forecast