ETH Zurich copies NASA climate data for AI forecasting

ETH Zurich has announced that it copied openly available NASA climate and Earth observation datasets to the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano to support AI-based weather forecasting and natural-hazard detection.

• Around 100 petabytes of publicly available NASA data were copied over the past few months to CSCS in Lugano; the data includes greenhouse gases, clouds, precipitation and ice sheets and will be continuously updated.
• ETH says the data will be made available for researchers in Switzerland and around the world; it also plans to add NOAA datasets and link the repository to the Alps supercomputer and AI processing workflows.
• The broader strategy includes the new ETH Swiss GeoLab in Lucerne over the next ten years, with an AI model trained on satellite, drone, sensor and monitoring-station data to identify landslide-prone areas.