{"id":216358,"date":"2017-06-21T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=216358"},"modified":"2017-06-21T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T07:47:42","slug":"ibm-supercomputers-to-improve-weather-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/216358-ibm-supercomputers-to-improve-weather-forecasts.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM supercomputers to improve weather forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Weather Company, an IBM Business,<a href=\"https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/52658.wss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>has announced<\/strong><\/a> a plan to improve weather prediction globally.<\/p>\n<p>IBM and UCAR will develop new models which will run on next-generation IBM supercomputing technology.<\/p>\n<p>The models will bring together meteorological science from The Weather Company, high-performance computing expertise from IBM Research, OpenPOWER-based supercomputing systems, and NCAR\u2019s community weather model.<\/p>\n<p>This effort will also work towards the creation of the first rapidly-updating, storm-scale model that can help predict weather events at local scales.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s operational global forecast models predict weather patterns down to regional-scale weather events, such as snowstorms and hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>The new model could improve weather and climate forecasting by better accounting for small-scale phenomena, such as thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>It will run at a high space and time resolution, making it the first model to cover the entire globe.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/206406-ibms-watson-now-offers-tech-support.html\">IBM\u2019s Watson now offers tech support<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weather Company and UCAR will collaborate to advance weather science globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":206408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[835,44018,44016],"class_list":["post-216358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-ibm","tag-ucar","tag-university-corporation-for-atmospheric-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216416,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216358\/revisions\/216416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}