Earthly Machine Learning

“Earthly Machine Learning (EML)” offers AI-generated insights into cutting-edge machine learning research in weather and climate sciences. Powered by Google NotebookLM, each episode distils the essence of a standout paper, helping you decide if it’s worth a deeper look. Stay updated on the ML innovations shaping our understanding of Earth.It may contain hallucinations.

Earthly Machine Learning is a science podcast hosted by Amirpasha, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 81. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Amirpasha hosts Earthly Machine Learning, a science show with 52 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation

  May 9, 202619 minS2

  <p>Citation: Kaack, L. H., Donti, P. L., Strubell, E., Kamiya, G., Creutzig, F., & Rolnick, D. (2022). Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 12, 518–527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01377-7</p><p>Main Takeaways:</p>Three Layers of AI's Climate Footprint: The authors propose a framework that splits machine learning's climate impact into three distinct categories — the energy and hardware emissions of computing itself, the immediate effects of specific ML applications, and the broader system-level changes that ML induces across society. The categories that are easiest to measure (like the electricity used to train a model) are likely...

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  Episode #8

  Machine learning for the physics of climate

  May 3, 202620 minS2

  <p>Machine learning for the physics of climate</p><p>Citation: Bracco, A., Brajard, J., Dijkstra, H. A., Hassanzadeh, P., Lessig, C., & Monteleoni, C. (2025). Machine learning for the physics of climate. Nature Reviews Physics, 7, 6–20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-024-00776-3</p><p>Main Takeaways:</p>Breaking the El Niño Spring Barrier: For decades, forecasts of the El Niño Southern Oscillation hit a hard wall at roughly 6 months lead time — a limit known as the spring predictability barrier. Convolutional neural networks trained on a mix of climate model and reanalysis data have shattered this ceiling, delivering skillful forecasts at 17 mo...

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  Episode #7

  Atmospheric Transport Modeling of CO2 With Neural Networks

  Apr 27, 202621 minS2

  <p>Citation: Benson, V., Bastos, A., Reimers, C., Winkler, A. J., Yang, F., & Reichstein, M. (2025). Atmospheric transport modeling of CO2 with neural networks. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17, e2024MS004655. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004655</p><p>Main Takeaways:</p>A New Benchmark for AI Carbon Tracking: The authors introduce CarbonBench, the first systematic benchmark dataset designed specifically for training and evaluating machine learning emulators of Eulerian atmospheric transport. Built from CarbonTracker CT2022 inversions and ObsPack station observations, it ships at three resolutions (the coarsest being 5.625° × 10 vertical levels × 6h) and is engineered to plug directly into modern deep learning pipel...

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  Episode #6

  On the foundations of Earth foundation models

  Apr 20, 202618 minS2

  <p><br></p><p>Citation: Zhu, X. X., Xiong, Z., Wang, Y., Stewart, A. J., Heidler, K., Wang, Y., Yuan, Z., Dujardin, T., Xu, Q., & Shi, Y. (2026). On the foundations of Earth foundation models. Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03127-x</p><p>Main Takeaways:</p><p>Current Earth AI Models Are Missing the Point: Researchers have identified eleven features that an ideal Earth foundation model must have — including geolocation awareness, multi-sensor integration, physical consistency, and carbon minimization — yet no existing model comes close to checking all eleven boxes. Most models focus on only one or two featu...

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  Episode #5

  Whose weather is it? A fairness framework for data-driven weather forecasting

  Apr 14, 202622 minS2

  <p>Citation: Olivetti, L., & Messori, G. (2025). Whose weather is it? A fairness framework for data-driven weather forecasting. Environmental Research Letters, 20, 121006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae21f5</p><p>Main Takeaways:</p><p>AI Weather Models Aren't Fair to Everyone: The latest generation of AI-powered weather forecasts improves predictions globally — but not equally. Using ECMWF's AIFS model as a case study, the authors show that wealthier and more densely populated areas consistently receive a higher share of forecast improvements compared to poorer and more rural regions, violating basic fairness criteria borrowed from the algorithmic fairness literature.</p><p>Two Measurable Fairness Tes...

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