At the recent groundbreaking ceremony for its Shanghai Municipal Artificial Intelligence Meteorological Application and Innovation Centre, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) also unveiled the Yushi and Fuyao artificial intelligence (AI) meteorological models. These two AI models are currently in trial operation and are scheduled for official operation during this year’s flood season.
By using 3D radar data training and vertical velocity algorithms, Yushi has achieved precise characterization of thunderstorm cells, advancing severe convective weather warnings by 15 to 45 minutes, the CMA says.
Fuyao has integrated multi-modal data to enable regional-scale end-to-end assimilation and forecasting integration, with update intervals reduced to 10-minute cycles and warning granularity refined to township-scale precision.
Dr BI Baogui, deputy administrator of CMA, attended the groundbreaking event, which was held on March 31.
In related news, the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Nanjing University, China, and the Earth System Numerical Prediction Center of the China Meteorological Administration recently published a paper, which outlines the impacts of the lateral boundary conditions provided by the AI models ‘Pangu-weather’ and ‘Fuxi-weather’ on convective-scale ensemble prediction systems. Click here to read the full story.