diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d9ee818..3636503 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -251,4 +251,30 @@ file with their credentials. models can produce a 10-day forecast in about 10-15 minutes. So end-to-end, for a long forecast, the GPU container should really only be running for < 20 minutes, which means that at today's (11-25-2023) market rates of $3.73/hr per A100 GPU, it - should cost about a bit more than a dollar to generate a forecast, all-in. \ No newline at end of file + should cost about a bit more than a dollar to generate a forecast, all-in. + +## Roadmap + +The following major projects are slated for Q1'24: + +**Operational AI Model Forecasts** - We will begin running pseudo-operational +forecasts for all included models in early Q1 using GFS initial conditions in +near-real-time, and disseminating the outputs in a publicly available Google +Cloud Storage bucket (per model licensing restrictions). + +**Post-processing / Visualization** - We will implement some simple (optional) +routines to post-process the default GRIB outputs into more standard ARCO formats, +and generate a complete set of visualizations that users can review as a stand-alone +gallery. Pending collaborations, we will try to make these available on popular +model visualization websites (contact @darothen if you're interested in hosting). + +**Porting to `earth2mip`** - Although we've used ecmwf-labs/ai-models for the initial +development, this package's extremely tight coupling with ECMWF infrastructure and +the climetlab library pose considerable development challenges. Therefore, we aim +to re-write this library using the NVIDIA/earth2mip framework. This is a far more +comprehensive and extensible framework for preparing a variety of modeling and learning +tasks related to AI-NWP, and provides access to the very large library of AI models +NVIDIA is collecting for their model zoo. This will likely be built in a stand-alone +package, e.g. `earth2mip-for-all`, but the goal is to provide the same accessibility +and ease-of-use for users who simply want to run these models to create their own +forecasts with limited engineering/infrastructure investment. \ No newline at end of file