It also recently announced €1m in annual funding for research at UCD to develop ways of using artificial intelligence (AI) to gather and process ­greater quantities of weather information. “We’re in a race to be ready for change and not just AI and technological change,” Mr Moran said. Mr Moran said meteorologists were constantly having to improve to keep pace with changing weather patterns. “They all maintain hydrometric networks, but for different reasons in line with their mandates,” Mr Moran said. Mr Moran said trials of the models had just finished and they would prove a useful tool.

Source: Irish Independent December 28, 2023 23:17 UTC