“Could we get weather forecasts years—or a decade—in advance?” Listen to the Science Friday broadcast with NSF NCAR researchers
January 16, 2025
In the near future, it may be possible to get accurate weather forecasts weeks, months, or even a decade ahead of schedule. This may even enable regions to prepare for dangerous natural hazards well ahead of time.
While this sounds like science fiction, researchers at NSF NCAR are working on this very challenge. The field, which utilizes powerful supercomputers, is called Earth system predictions.
At Science Friday Live in Boulder, Colorado, Ira Flatow sat down with two NCAR scientists, Dr. Yaga Richter and Dr. Jerry Meehl, about their work in Earth system predictions.
