Manchester physicists David Topping and Hao Zhang, working with the NVIDIA Earth-2 team, moved generative models originally built for weather into air quality forecasting: they trained the Earth-2 CorrDiff generative downscaling model on a year of hourly UK chemistry-climate simulation data, completing training in two days on a single eight-GPU node of Isambard-AI to produce a UK-wide pollution model at 2-3 square kilometer resolution, added Earth-2 StormCast for time-dependent forecasts that directly use air quality observations, demonstrated inference and smaller training runs on the DGX Spark desktop AI system, and plan to release open source training data and workflows so other countries and regions can train their own models.
Manchester physicists David Topping and Hao Zhang, working with the NVIDIA Earth-2 team, moved generative models originally built for weather into air quality forecasting: they trained the Earth-2 CorrDiff generative downscaling model on a year of hourly UK chemistry-climate simulation data, completing training in two days on a single eight-GPU node of Isambard-AI to produce a UK-wide pollution model at 2-3 square kilometer resolution, added Earth-2 StormCast for time-dependent forecasts that directly use air quality observations, demonstrated inference and smaller training runs on the DGX Spark desktop AI system, and plan to release open source training data and workflows so other countries and regions can train their own models.