Picture 1. WCRP 40th Session Image. From WCRP by N. V. Wel, 2017, https://www.wcrp-climate.org/images/WCRP_conferences/JSC40/images/JSC40header_featurebox.jpg
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The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) are group of scientists focused on understanding the climate change. This group differs from CliMA in that WCRP chose to enhance the traditional method of prediction and augment it using machine learning instead of replacing the system from scratch. They host annual meetings with global officials at attendance and provide suggestions to the policy makers on the current state of Earth.
References
Wel, N. V. (2019, June 18). 40th Session of the Joint Scientific Committee. Retrieved from https://www.wcrp-climate.org/jsc40-about
Social Social aspect of the topic covers events or communication aimed towards the general public. The posts in this category consists of various social and political events that pertains to climate change and climate informatics.
AI for Earth In the Microsoft blog called “Researchers turn to AI in a bid to improve weather forecasts” by Roach, the author highlights some of the company's contribution to the research that benefits mankind. Through the AI for Earth initiative, the company funds various challenging research projects that studies Earth. The blog also highlights the social activities, such as hackathons, that illustrates some of the current trends of using machine learning to solve difficult problems. References Roach, J. (2019, May 20). Researchers turn to AI in a bid to improve weather forecasts. Retrieved May 26, 2019, from https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/ai-subseasonal-weather-forecast/
Upgrade or Replace There are two approaches when upgrading an existing system: improve the current system or replace the system. The former enjoys the extensive amount of previous work, but it also faces possible short-comings inherit to a design based on outdated technologies. The latter option provides an opportunity to design a solution based on the latest technologies, it but may prove costly to replace old system. Most of the researchers deemed replacement too expensive and opted to supplement the existing system by solving the existing problems. Professor Tapio Schneider and his colleagues decided otherwise (Perkins, 2018). They created a team called CliMA (Perkins, 2018). Picture 1. Professor Tapio Schneider. From New Climate Model to Be Built from the Ground Up by S. Diani, 2019, https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline__699w__no_aspect/public/350cs_80727X_Tapio_0.jpg?itok=6HRPTU8g New Climate Model This young but ambitious project aims to replace ...
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