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| author | Yang, Charles |
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| contents | This paper traces the global race to apply early electronic computers to numerical weather prediction in the decades following World War Two. A brief overview of the early history of numerical weather prediction in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, and Japan is provided. Three critical factors that shaped the development of a national numerical weather prediction are identified: compute capabilities, institution building and state capacity, and talent. Several generalizable lessons are identified with a lens towards modern-day development of national strategies to leverage AI to accelerate scientific competitiveness. |
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| spellingShingle | The First Compute Arms Race: the Early History of Numerical Weather Prediction Yang, Charles Computers and Society Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics This paper traces the global race to apply early electronic computers to numerical weather prediction in the decades following World War Two. A brief overview of the early history of numerical weather prediction in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, and Japan is provided. Three critical factors that shaped the development of a national numerical weather prediction are identified: compute capabilities, institution building and state capacity, and talent. Several generalizable lessons are identified with a lens towards modern-day development of national strategies to leverage AI to accelerate scientific competitiveness. |
| title | The First Compute Arms Race: the Early History of Numerical Weather Prediction |
| topic | Computers and Society Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21816 |