NVIDIA's Earth-2 lands in Europe with StormScope EU, a 10-minute regional forecast model

NVIDIA said organizations across Europe are putting its Earth-2 family of open weather and climate models into operational work, from reinsurance hurricane risk to short-term solar forecasting.

The newest addition is StormScope EU, a regional version of the StormScope short-term forecasting model trained on European weather and climate data. It uses EUMETSAT satellite observations to predict evolving cloud conditions across 16 Meteosat channels at 10-minute intervals.

At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA is showing a live pipeline built with Earthmover: Earth2Studio runs the forecasts, Earthmover's data platform manages and serves real-time results that refresh as new satellite observations arrive every 10 minutes, and the output is delivered as map tiles so visitors can explore predictions without downloading whole datasets.

Developers can combine the models in their own workflows, using StormScope for nowcasting and CorrDiff to add local detail to coarser global data, and can retrain the architectures for other environmental applications such as air quality. The open-source PhysicsNeMo framework supplies training and customization tooling so teams can fold in proprietary data and domain expertise.

Among the named users, AXA is applying Earth-2's FourCastNet 3 to regional cyclone risk beyond the historical record, running more than 1,000 simulated seasons to inform risk assessments and help customers target prevention.

Vaisala Xweather is combining Earth-2 with its own observations, lightning data and forecasting expertise, adapting StormScope with lightning data to extend short-term lead time and pushing those warnings into its software-as-a-service products and AI assistant integrations.

University of Manchester researchers adapted CorrDiff for UK air-quality modeling, training on the NVIDIA-powered Isambard-AI supercomputer and running it locally on DGX Spark systems, moving environmental modeling from a national supercomputer to a desk. TotalEnergies is evaluating StormScope-based solar-radiation nowcasts at two photovoltaic sites, working toward sub-hourly weather information.

The pitch is not one best-in-class weather model but a modular family plus tooling for simulation and deployment. What decides whether it works is whether local operators can tune these models to operational accuracy with their own observations, which is exactly what the AXA, Vaisala and Manchester cases are meant to demonstrate.