This is episode 1/3 with Alex Merose about his thoughts on weather foundation models. He is a member of the technical staff at Open Athena. In this episode, Alex steps through the background on doing weather prediction, from early efforts around a century ago to numerical and physics based models. This prepares us for later episodes on machine learning or AI based approaches.

Links to items discussed:

1. Pangeo, a community for open, reproducible, scalable geoscience.
2. Alex's Google Scholar profile.
3. Episode with Sergei Nozdrenkov on a coral reef foundation model.
4. Global Climate Data Collaboration: The Intentional Dream by George Dyson.
5. Hurricane Melissa.
6. Arham Ansari on GeoRiskAI.
7. What can a technologist do about climate change.