ClimaX
First foundation model for weather and climate by Microsoft, Vision Transformer-based architecture trained on heterogeneous datasets (ICML 2023)
- Repository
- github.com/microsoft/climax
Source attribution
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/microsoft/climax
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