Data sovereignty: A man walks past skyscrapers in the central business district of Beijing. China sees meteorological data as a key pillar of its weather ambitions and recently intensified efforts to develop and share high-value data. — Reuters
BEIJING: China’s push to be a weather superpower has seen authorities accelerate efforts to end reliance on a European dataset, promoting a homegrown alternative for the era of artificial intelligence (AI)-fuelled forecasting.
Europe’s ERA5, is considered the benchmark of climate data, providing details on a range of variables such as rainfall, temperature and wind, spanning more than eight decades.
