In a world facing rapid population growth, the demand for sustainable agricultural practices and healthy environments is paramount. Discover how AgriTech Solutions is utilizing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather data hosted on AWS, along with commercial weather information, to create innovative digital tools that empower farmers to monitor and manage their fields effectively, thereby promoting farm sustainability. You can read more about this initiative in another blog post here.
The Gulf Water Institute conducts intensive storm surge and wave simulations using AWS, a process that often necessitates significant computational power. These simulations are vital for predicting hurricane storm surges (such as the forecast for Hurricane Mike in September 2020), assessing flood risks in Louisiana and other coastal regions, aiding governmental preparations for future conditions, and fostering proactive coastal management.
In an era of extreme weather events, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is at the forefront of understanding our planet’s systems. Funded by the National Science Foundation, NCAR collaborates with academic institutions on large-scale Earth system science projects. They maintain supercomputers, observational systems, and aircraft to support research efforts. As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, we invited Dr. Emily Roberts, a machine learning expert at NCAR, to discuss how open data and machine learning on AWS are revolutionizing the prediction and comprehension of extreme weather patterns. For further insights, check out this authority on the topic.
In December, AWS expanded its partnership with the U.S. NOAA to enhance access to environmental data through the Big Data Program. Users can now access new, authoritative NOAA data on AWS without the burden of downloading and storing it themselves. This advancement allows researchers and entrepreneurs to leverage on-demand cloud compute resources for quick, cost-effective analysis, enabling them to ask more questions and experiment more freely. One of the key datasets available now through this collaboration is the Himawari-8 satellite data from the Japan Meteorological Agency.
At the 2019 re:Invent conference held in Las Vegas, Amazon Sustainability and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) organized a four-hour workshop and hackathon named “Code Green”. This event showcased ASDI’s collection of sustainability-related datasets and innovative applications for them, including geospatial weather and climate data available on AWS.
In a notable announcement from October, we revealed that the real-time feed and complete historical archive of original resolution (Level II) NEXRAD data is now freely accessible on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This Next Generation Weather Radar network consists of 160 high-resolution Doppler radar sites crucial for severe storm prediction.
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