SAN JOSE, CA (GTC), Mar 24, 2025 – NVIDIA has introduced the Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 weather analytics, designed to fast-track the creation of precise weather forecasting solutions.
Over the past decade, climate-related disasters have inflicted an estimated $2 trillion in economic damages worldwide. The innovative blueprint brings technological advancement to organizations, helping them strengthen disaster preparedness and manage climate risks effectively.
The Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 offers a complete set of resources, including GPU-accelerated libraries, an AI-powered physics framework, development tools, and microservices. These enable businesses to move promptly from initial prototypes to functional weather forecasting models.
The package also includes NVIDIA NIM microservices tailored for Earth-2, such as CorrDiff for downscaling and FourCastNet for simulating global weather patterns. The tools are trusted by researchers, tech firms, and government agencies to analyze severe weather data and reduce risks tied to extreme events.
“We’re seeing more extreme weather events and natural disasters than ever, threatening lives and property,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “The NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 will help industries around the world prepare for — and mitigate — climate change and weather-related disasters.”
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Industry-leading climate tech companies, including AI company G42, JBA Risk Management, and Spire, are using the blueprint to develop unique AI-augmented solutions.
By combining with exclusive enterprise data in the $20 billion climate tech sector, the NVIDIA Earth-2 platform helps developers build solutions that deliver alerts and updated forecasts in seconds, much faster than traditional CPU-based models that take minutes or hours.
G42 is combining parts of the Omniverse Blueprint with its AI forecasting models for Earth-2. This supports the UAE’s National Center of Meteorology with AI tools for weather prediction and disaster management.
“G42 is advancing AI-powered forecasting to help governments and enterprises strengthen resilience against extreme weather in a rapidly changing world,” said Andrew Jackson, CEO of Inception, a G42 company. “Using high-resolution weather and climate modeling, we are transforming how organizations anticipate and respond to severe weather conditions with precision and speed. Building on NVIDIA’s CorrDiff model, we have developed a custom AI-driven system that downscales coarse weather data into hyper-local forecasts, enabling faster predictions at an unprecedented scale. Combined with the Earth-2 Blueprint, this technology equips decision-makers with actionable intelligence to protect communities, safeguard infrastructure, and plan for a more resilient future.”
Spire Global used AI components from the blueprint as reference to developing new AI products that integrate their proprietary satellite data and deliver medium-range and sub-seasonal forecasts out to 45 days. Powered by NVIDIA GPUs and the Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2, Spire’s models run 1,000x faster than traditional physics-based models, enabling ensemble forecasts that capture the full range of possible weather outcomes.
In addition to the Central Weather Administration of Taiwan and The Weather Company, other companies adopting or exploring Earth-2 include 3D mapping company Ecopia, spatial analytics company ESRI, green energy company GCL Power, flood risk management company JBA Risk Management, aerospace company OroraTech, and Tomorrow.io, a resilience platform powered by proprietary space data and weather intelligence.
Groundbreaking Generative AI for Climate Tech
The Earth-2 platform offers tools, microservices, and an array of AI weather models for visualizing and simulating the globe.
CorrDiff is available as an NVIDIA NIM microservice. Compared with CPUs, it can be 500x faster and 10,000x more energy-efficient in delivering high-resolution numerical weather predictions.
The Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 enables software vendors to build and deploy AI-supported solutions using observational data to improve speed and accuracy.
Using the blueprint, Esri, a geospatial tech company, is working with NVIDIA to link its ArcGIS platform to Earth-2. OroraTech is considering integrating its data platform with the Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2.
Tomorrow.io contributed its near-real-time proprietary satellite data to help create an NVIDIA digital twin of Earth for next-generation AI model training, inference, and reinforcement.
A key component of the new blueprint is NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing OpenUSD-based 3D workflows and applications. The Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 showcases how developers can use Omniverse software development kits and microservices to build NVIDIA RTX-powered visualization pipelines for rendering geospatial and weather data.
NVIDIA DGX Cloud-Powered Compute
The Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 taps into the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform to demonstrate full-stack acceleration for AI-augmented weather forecasting. Running on NVIDIA DGX GB200, NVIDIA HGX B200, and NVIDIA OVX supercomputers, the blueprint provides a path to simulating and visualizing global climate simulations at exceptional speed and scale.
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