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AI Revolutionizes Climate Models Amid Urgent Climate Crisis

2/21/2026

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Tapio Schneider, a climate physicist at Caltech, founded the Climate Modeling Alliance (CLIMA) in 2019 to integrate AI with physics to improve climate models.
Researchers say cloud simulations remain hard because data are limited and computing demands are high.
Schneider and his colleague Bretherton stress the urgency of better models as climate change accelerates.
Bretherton is developing AI tools that predict climate outcomes from real-world data, reducing reliance on equations.

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Tapio Schneider, a climate physicist at Caltech, founded the Climate Modeling Alliance (CLIMA) in 2019 to integrate AI with physics to improve climate models.
Researchers say cloud simulations remain hard because data are limited and computing demands are high.
Schneider and his colleague Bretherton stress the urgency of better models as climate change accelerates.
Bretherton is developing AI tools that predict climate outcomes from real-world data, reducing reliance on equations.