Kelly: Numerical weather models struggle to generate detailed cloud maps
Dr. Jack Kelly · AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants · Nov 16, 2023 · at 8:03
Dr. Jack Kelly, co-founder of Open Climate Fix, explains the technical limitations of conventional numerical weather prediction (NWP) simulations for solar power forecasting.
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“Which is all to say that NWPs, whilst they do a great job of predicting things like humidity and temperature, converting that to a really detailed map of where the clouds are is known to be fairly imperfect at the moment.”
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