AI in Climate Science: From Emulation to New Discoveries

Explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing climate science in this presidential lecture that demonstrates AI's powerful capabilities in improving Earth's climate simulations. Delve into the challenges of representing complex processes like turbulence, convection, and terrestrial phenology, and discover how AI serves as a solution to these computational roadblocks. Learn about innovative approaches for extracting new knowledge from expanding datasets to advance understanding of multiscale and nonlinear physics in climate systems. Examine practical applications of AI in analyzing vast amounts of observational data from satellites and simulations, gaining insights into how these technologies are transforming climate research methodologies and enhancing our comprehension of Earth's intricate climate system.