This is episode 2/3 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 ML weather models, their history and how they work.

Links to items discussed:

1. ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5): https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5
2. I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me: https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fooled-by-ai-for-science-hypeheres