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Saturday, November 16, 2019

IBM Wants to Change Weather Forecasting

Wondered Where IBM was Taking their big Weather Investment.  I note that American Airlines is testing some of this.

IBM hopes to change weather forecasting around the globe in CNBC
 a model offering high resolution forecasts globally with detail as small as 2 miles wide.

The system is called GRAF, or Global High Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting, and will have many applications globally for governments and industries including airlines, agriculture and retail.

GRAF will issue 12 trillion pieces of weather data every day and process forecasts every hour.

IBM became a leading player in meteorology when it purchased the Weather Company a few years ago, retaining the data gathering and forecasting units while splitting off the Weather Channel.   ... " 

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