We announce the release of EPT-1.5, the latest iteration in our Earth Physics Transformer (EPT) family of foundation AI earth system models. EPT-1.5 demonstrates substantial improvements over its predecessor, EPT-1. Built specifically for the European energy industry, EPT-1.5 shows remarkable performance in predicting energy-relevant variables, particularly 10m & 100m wind speed and solar radiation. Especially in wind prediction, it outperforms existing AI weather models like GraphCast, FuXi, and Pangu-Weather, as well as the leading numerical weather model, IFS HRES by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), setting a new state of the art.
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@article{arxiv.2410.15076,
title = {EPT-1.5 Technical Report},
author = {Roberto Molinaro and Jordan Dane Daubinet and Alexander Jakob Dautel and Andreas Schlueter and Alex Grigoryev and Nikoo Ekhtiari and Bas Steunebrink and Kevin Thiart and Roan John Song and Henry Martin and Leonie Wagner and Andrea Giussani and Marvin Vincent Gabler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15076},
year = {2024}
}