David Topping

Manchester uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to forecast UK air pollution

The University of Manchester worked with NVIDIA to train Earth-2 generative downscaling models on the UK supercomputer Isambard-AI to forecast nationwide air pollution, producing time-dependent pollution fields without expensive chemistry-based models. The work shows Earth-2 CorrDiff and StormCast can generate scenarios for policy-relevant air quality forecasting and observational assimilation.