7 papers
AirCast-SR: A Foundation Model for Kilometer-Scale Atmospheric Super-Resolution via Latent Consistency Diffusion
Somnath Luitel, Manmeet Singh, Joshua Durkee +11
Operational weather prediction at kilometer scales remains computationally prohibitive for traditional numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, limiting forecast access for appli…
CoolPath Tool: A Thermal Comfort Path Planning Tool for Urban Mobility
Aditya Patel, Naveen Sudharsan, Trevor Brooks +5
Extreme heat poses a growing challenge for active transportation in cities where conventional weather reporting (e.g. limited air temperature measurement for the whole city) fails…
Exploring the design space of diffusion and flow models for data fusion
Niraj Chaudhari, Manmeet Singh, Naveen Sudharsan +4
Data fusion is an essential task in various domains, enabling the integration of multi-source information to enhance data quality and insights. One key application is in satellite…
UT-GraphCast Hindcast Dataset: A Global AI Forecast Archive from UT Austin for Weather and Climate Applications
Naveen Sudharsan, Manmeet Singh, Harsh Kamath +4
The UT GraphCast Hindcast Dataset from 1979 to 2024 is a comprehensive global weather forecast archive generated using the Google DeepMind GraphCast Operational model. Developed by…
Enhancing Near Real Time AI-NWP Hurricane Forecasts: Improving Explainability and Performance Through Physics-Based Models and Land Surface Feedback
Naveen Sudharsan, Manmeet Singh, Sasanka Talukdar +12
Hurricane track forecasting remains a significant challenge due to the complex interactions between the atmosphere, land, and ocean. Although AI-based numerical weather prediction…
NDUI+: A fused DMSP-VIIRS based global normalized difference urban index dataset
Manmeet Singh, Subhasis Ghosh, Harsh Kamath +9
Urbanization is advancing rapidly, covering less than 2% of Earth's surface yet profoundly influencing global environments and experiencing disproportionate impacts from extreme we…