Process automation

Met Office · AWS

Independently reportedPublic sectorUnited KingdomPilotEnterpriseLLM

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The problem

Generating textual forecasts from raw weather model data, a task that typically takes expert meteorologists hours to a day.

What was deployed

Vendor
AWS
Products
Amazon Nova Foundation Model
Models
Amazon Nova Foundation Model
Technique
LLM
Build or buy
Bought off the shelf
Data used
raw data output of weather models, a day’s worth of hourly forecast information from a multitude of data sources
Timeline
1 months

What changed

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under five minutesTime to complete textual forecast generationfrom a few hours to a dayAfter four weeks of prototyping

After four weeks of prototyping, the system was able to complete this task in under five minutes

Quoted word for word from the source

between 52% and 62%Accuracy of textual forecastsAfter four weeks of prototyping

After four weeks of prototyping, the system was able to complete this task in under five minutes with between 52% and 62% accuracy.

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[In doing this,] we are minimising time building something that already exists and maximising time building something new that usefully extends it, exploiting our particular expertise and deep weather and climate domain knowledge.
Dr Edward Steele, Met Office IT Fellow for Data Science

Difficulties and limits

Sources

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