💨 Bad Weather or Air? AI Will Tell You in a Minute!

Today, more than 90% of people worldwide breathe air with pollution levels exceeding acceptable levels. The UN recognizes air pollution as a major threat to human and planetary health.

📱 Aurora, Microsoft's new AI-based tool, accurately and quickly predicts weather and air pollution levels on a global scale.

It is the first AI model to predict air conditions — a much more complex task than weather forecasting. The model was trained using millions of hours of data from six weather and climate models and 1.3 billion parameters.

The tool uses a lot of data, including wind speed, atmospheric pressure, temperature, and greenhouse gas concentrations.

📊 Aurora can predict the levels of six major air pollutants worldwide in less than a minute: carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and particulate matter.

Aurora predicts air conditions five days ahead and weather conditions ten days ahead. The model can also anticipate the size and severity of extreme weather events such as hurricanes 😵‍💫

Uses

➕ The accuracy of Aurora's forecasts is comparable to other leading AI models but with many times smaller computational costs.

➕ The ability to quickly predict levels of dangerous pollutants can serve as an early warning system everywhere, including in third-world countries where such data was previously unavailable.

➕ Air quality is essential information for people with asthma and cardiovascular disease.

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