Promising new opportunities to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the Earth and
environmental sciences are identified, informed by an overview of current efforts in the
community. Community input was collected at the first National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) workshop on “Leveraging AI in the Exploitation of Satellite Earth
Observations and Numerical Weather Prediction” held in April 2019. This workshop brought
together over 400 scientists, program managers, and leaders from the public, academic, and …

The Earth and environmental sciences (collectively Earth science in what follows) stand to
benefit from leveraging rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) from diverse applied
science fields due to the combination of fast paced increases in data availability and
computational capabilities. Leveraging algorithms used in other fields—what might be called
meta-transfer learning—is accelerating the use of AI for environmental data and Earth
system applications. We summarize here the main areas where significant progress has …