The legislation — introduced on Wednesday by Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Tim Sheehy, R-Mont. — would explore the development and use of AI weather models “to project future Earth system conditions based on machine learning using weather forecasting training datasets.”
A companion bill was also introduced in the House on Wednesday by Rep. Scott Franklin, R-Fla. Schatz and Franklin both introduced similar proposals during the last Congress.
Within four years of the bill’s enactment, NOAA — in consultation with the Energy Department, NASA, the National Science Foundation and other relevant entities — would be directed to “develop and curate comprehensive weather forecasting training datasets with relevant Earth system data, quality information, and metadata necessary for weather forecasting.”
These datasets would, “to the greatest extent possible,” build upon the federal government’s “existing Earth system reanalysis datasets.”
The proposal also gives NOAA the leeway to pursue additional AI-related projects, including saying that the agency “may develop and test a global weather model” based on AI tools using its internal data and “may experiment with regional and local weather models based on artificial intelligence technologies.” Using these developed models, NOAA “may explore” using AI to also enhance information sharing related to weather and wildfires risks.
A press release announcing the bill’s introduction said it would also direct NOAA to “partner with the priva ..
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