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CEE Visiting scientist Dr. Judah Cohen and Professor of Biology Ernest Fraenkel win subseasonal climate forecast rodeo competition

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CEE Visiting scientist Dr. Judah Cohen and Professor of Biology Ernest Fraenkel win subseasonal climate forecast rodeo competition
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scientist Dr. Judah Cohen collaborated with Professor of Biological Engineering Ernest Fraenkel, two Stanford University PhD students and a Microsoft researcher in a Subseasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo Competition and won first place in 3 out of 4 temperature forecasting categories. The researchers created a climate model combining historical weather pattern recognition and machine learning in order to produce real-time predictions of temperature and precipitation anomalies 2 – 6 weeks in advance for the Western United States. Read more on MIT News.