Mike Pritchard

Mike Pritchard is the director of climate simulation research for NVIDIA Research, where he works on Earth-2. He leads a team of researchers who are exploring the potential of AI to advance weather and climate simulation. Mike previously served as a professor of Earth system sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where he led a research lab studying climate dynamics and next-generation atmospheric simulation algorithms starting in 2013.
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Posts by Mike Pritchard

Simulation / Modeling / Design Sep 19, 2025

Predict Extreme Weather Events in Minutes Without a Supercomputer

Scientists from NVIDIA, in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), released a machine learning tool called Huge Ensembles... 5 MIN READ
A GIF of the earth.
Simulation / Modeling / Design Jul 29, 2025

FourCastNet 3 Enables Fast and Accurate Large Ensemble Weather Forecasting with Scalable Geometric ML

FourCastNet3 (FCN3) is the latest AI global weather forecasting system from NVIDIA Earth-2. FCN3 offers an unprecedented combination of probabilistic skill,... 7 MIN READ
AI Platforms / Deployment Jul 11, 2025

Forecasting the Weather Beyond Two Weeks Using NVIDIA Earth-2

Being able to predict extreme weather events is essential as such conditions become more common and destructive. Subseasonal climate forecasting—predicting... 9 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Jul 10, 2025

From Terabytes to Turnkey: AI-Powered Climate Models Go Mainstream

In the race to understand our planet’s changing climate, speed and accuracy are everything. But today’s most widely used climate simulators often struggle:... 7 MIN READ