USA receives grant to research using artificial intelligence to forecast the weather

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Posted on October 10, 2020 by Caroline Carithers

Caroline Carithers

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by: Caroline Carithers WKRG

Posted: Oct 12, 2020 / 04:36 PM CDT / Updated: Oct 12, 2020 / 06:22 PM CDT

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Meteorologists such as our First Alert Storm Team use computer models to help them forecast the weather. The University of South Alabama along with four other universities received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research using machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve forecasting the weather.

South’s portion of the grant is almost $800,000 and will be use to teach the forecast models how to more accurately predict local weather such as sea breezes, weather events that could impact agriculture in our region and large scale weather such as hurricanes.

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