Artificial intelligence to boost understanding of Earth: Study - Express Computer

Artificial intelligence (AI) can substantially improve our understanding of the climate and the Earth system, according to a study. Complex dynamic processes such as hurricanes, fire propagation, and vegetation dynamics can be better described with the help of AI, said researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) in Germany. As a result, climate and Earth system models will be improved, with new models combining AI and physical modelling, according to the study published in the journal Nature. In the past decades mainly static attributes have been investigated using machine learning approaches, such as the distribution of soil properties from the local to the global scale. For some time now, it has been possible to tackle more dynamic processes by using more sophisticated deep learning techniques.