From Satellite Observations to AI Forecasts

StormScope-US uses six GOES-19 observations to predict twelve future satellite frames at 10-minute intervals, covering the next two hours.

• NWP takes hours to run
• Nowcasting starts from what satellites see in real time:
  • Advection-based: moves a frozen cloud field
  • Generative: clouds also form and dissolve

Observing the Atmosphere from Space

GOES-19 (GOES-East) observes the Americas from geostationary orbit, approximately 36,000 km above the equator at 75.2° W.

Its Advanced Baseline Imager measures 16 spectral channels and scans the contiguous US every 5 minutes.

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True ColorBlue, red + near-infrared channelsNatural-looking daytime view of clouds and Earth’s surface.

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Water Vapor6.2 + 7.3 µm water vapor, 10.3 µm infraredMoist and dry air, day and night: jet streams and troughs stand out.

StormScope-US predicts the next two hours of clouds

A generative diffusion model from NVIDIA, distilled for speed (Flash). It forecasts eight GOES channels directly in image space on a 3 km grid, learning how clouds move and grow instead of solving the physics.

• Conditioned on topography
• Ensemble-of-experts denoising across noise levels
• NVIDIA L40S GPU · ~3.5 s per 10-minute step

Earth2Studio wires data, model and storage together

NVIDIA's open-source Python package for AI weather and climate. You can swap data sources, models and outputs without rewriting the pipeline.

1. 1
   FetchLatest 6 GOES-19 CONUS frames from NOAA Open Data on AWS
2. 2
   PredictStormScope-US rolls forward 12 × 10 min on the GPU
3. 3
   WriteUpload forecasts to Arraylake while GPU runs
4. 4
   ServeMap tiles served via Earthmover Compute

From satellite to screen in 5 minutes

1. GOES-19Scans the contiguous US from orbit
2. NOAA Open Data on AWSProcesses and publishes the scan
   ~4 min
3. DownloadEarth2Studio fetches the latest frames
   ~2 s
4. Inference on NVIDIA GPU saving to ArraylakePredicts 2 hours ahead
   ~40 s
5. Earthmover ComputeRenders map tiles straight from the data
   ~2 s
6. Your browserLoads all 13 frames and plays the loop
   ~12 s