Here’s a breakdown of the organizations utilizing NVIDIA Earth-2 models, categorized by their primary application, based on the provided text:
1. Weather Forecasting & Climate Modeling:
* Brightband: Running Earth-2 Medium Range operationally for global forecasts.
* Israel Meteorological Service: Using Earth-2 corrdiff operationally and planning to use Earth-2 Nowcasting for high-resolution forecasts.
* The Weather Company: Evaluating Earth-2 Nowcasting for localized severe-weather applications.
* NWS (National Weather Service): Evaluating the new models to enhance operational workflows.
2. Energy Forecasting & Grid Operations:
* TotalEnergies: Evaluating Earth-2 nowcasting to improve short-term risk awareness and decision-making.
* Eni: Testing Earth-2 models (FourCastNet and CorrDiff) for downscaling predictions of weather and gas demand.
* GCL: Running NVIDIA Earth-2 models operationally for its photovoltaic prediction system.
* Southwest power Pool (SPP) & Hitachi (collaboration): Using Earth-2 Nowcasting and FourCastNet3 to improve wind forecasting.
3.Financial Impact Assessment & Risk Management:
* S&P Global Energy: Using Earth-2 CorrDiff to turn climate data into local insights for risk assessment.
* AXA: Using FourCastNet to generate hurricane scenarios for R&D in risk assessment.
Significant Note: brightband is specifically noted as a member of the NVIDIA Inception program’s Sustainable Futures initiative.
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