AI and Climate

New Visual Analysis Tool Calms the Climate Data Storm

Climate models generate billions of data points, and traditional analysis methods can't keep up. UC Davis Ph.D. student Yuya Kawakami developed ClimateSOM, an interactive visualization tool that helps scientists explore thousands of climate futures and uncover patterns that current methods can miss.

Zhaodan Kong Awarded CITRIS-CDSS Innovation Fellowship to Advance Early Wildfire Detection

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Zhaodan Kong has earned a CITRIS-CDSS Innovation Fellowship to pilot FireFly, an AI-powered sensor and drone system designed to detect wildfires at their earliest stages.