September 16, 2025
Co-developed by UC Berkeley's William Boos, an artificial intelligence-based weather model delivered a timely prediction of a stalled monsoon this season, helping farmers decide when to plant their crops.
This AI-based weather model — a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago — paves the way for much better forecasts for hundreds of millions of farmers across the tropics and global south whose livelihoods depend on timing crop planting with the monsoon’s arrival.