Stormy Weather? Scientist Sharpens Forecasts With AI

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of blogs on researchers advancing science in the expanding universe of high performance computing. A perpetual shower of random raindrops falls inside a three-foot metal ring Dale Durran erected outside his front door (shown above). A part-time sculptor and full-time professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington, Durran has co-authored dozens of papers describing patterns in Earth's ever-changing skies. It's a field for those who crave a confounding challenge trying to express with math the endless dance of air and water. In 2019, Durran acquired a new tool, AI.