Archives for Weather forecasting

03 Aug

India Meteorological Department Will Use Artificial Intelligence For Weather Forecastin

According to many media reports, The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is aiming at utilising artificial intelligence in weather forecasting. The use of AI is particularly focused on issuing nowcasts, which can help in almost real time (3-6 hours) prediction of drastic weather episodes, the Director-General Mrutunjay Mohapatra stated last week. Even though the use of…

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06 Jul

How This Mumbai-Based Transmission Company Managed Power During Amphan With AI-Powered Weather Intelligence Platform

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The recent Cyclone Amphan in Bay of Bengal and Nisarga in the Arabian Sea has disrupted millions of lives and killed thousands of people. However, Mumbai-based power transmission company, IndiGrid, managed to overcome challenges arisen due to the strong cyclone with a weather intelligence platform. Established in 2016, IndiGrid provides the infrastructure for the power…

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29 Nov

Why India Needed A 100PF Supercomputer To Help With Weather Forecasting 

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India has been dealing with the changing climatic conditions and needs reliable forecasts for extreme weather conditions like droughts, floods, cyclones, lightning and air quality, among others. On November 28, India announced that over the next 2 years it plans to augment the existing Supercomputer to 100PetaFlops for accurate weather forecasting. This announcement made at…

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27 Nov

India To Use AI & 100 PF Supercomputer To Improve Weather Prediction

In a move that could potentially save millions of lives, Dr M Rajeevan, the Union Secretary for Earth Sciences, this week announced new initiatives by the Ministry for improving weather prediction with artificial intelligence. The announcement was made at the four-day workshop on Prediction skill of extreme Precipitation events and tropical cyclones: Present status and…

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15 Mar

How Analytics Is Ushering In A Smart Weather Forecasting Industry In India

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Data offers a crucial advantage for any kind of forecasting. One such applications where data analysis is of use is for weather forecast. Importance Of Data In Weather Data analytics can give us plenty of information about disasters and help in disaster readiness. They can be used to prepare for everyday conditions and catastrophic events,…

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04 Nov

What Happens Once Quantum Computers Replace Traditional Binary Computers

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“In classical computers, you give me a certain input, I put it in my computer, I give you an output. But if our hardware was quantum mechanical, rather than just sequentially providing some input and reading out the answers, I could prepare the computer register in the quantum superpositions of many different kinds of inputs.”…

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