Earth-2: Updates on kilometer-scale visualization, simulation, digital twinning, and AI super-resolution

NVIDIA is committed to working with the climate science community to transform how weather and climate are simulated and to accelerate the extraction of actionable information from vast quantities of data. This is the premise of NVIDIA’s Earth-2 Initiative. In July 2023, NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang announced at the Berlin Summit that three technological breakthroughs are needed to achieve Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE): (i) Simulating Earth’s climate at kilometer-scale; (ii) Using AI to emulate the physics of weather and climate from exabytes of data; (iii) Serving this wealth of information via a cloud-based intuitive digital twin platform for interactive exploration, analyses, and decision-making.
In this context, we present new research results and emerging software tools and optimized simulation capabilities towards collaborative technology platforms to help next-generation operational climate information system initiatives achieve their goals ahead of computational schedule. We will especially focus on a recent breakthrough in regional generative AI diffusion modeling for km-scale downscaling and forecasting.