NVIDIA AI Podcast

NVIDIA’s Mike Pritchard Shares How Applying AI to Climate Simulation is Helping Forecast the Future - Ep. 266

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Jul 23, 2025
Mike Pritchard, Director of Climate Simulation Research at NVIDIA, shares insights on how AI is transforming climate science. He discusses developing high-resolution simulations that improve predictions of extreme weather and long-term climate patterns. AI enables better data analysis, revealing hidden patterns in historical climate records. The conversation emphasizes the need for advanced computational resources and how innovative modeling techniques can inform policy decisions, helping communities prepare for climate challenges.
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Mike's Journey into Climate Science

  • Mike Pritchard shifted from astrophysics to climate science after visiting Bangladesh and seeing the real impacts of sea level rise.\n- He realized the importance of physics problems that affect the world and committed to improving climate simulation.
INSIGHT

Climate Modeling Challenges

  • Climate prediction models focus on averaging weather statistics over time, unlike daily weather forecasts.\n- Simulating future climate requires enormous computational power due to complexity and the multiple scenarios needed.
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AI Revolutionizes Climate Simulation

  • AI helps accelerate climate simulators by approximating complex physics like clouds through learned neural networks.\n- This approach now enables full AI atmospheric simulations with interactive, high-resolution, and counterfactual weather forecasts.
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