{"id":19600,"date":"2026-03-06T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=19600"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:52:24","slug":"libby-barnes-ai-climate-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2026\/03\/06\/libby-barnes-ai-climate-models\/","title":{"rendered":"CDS Professor Libby Barnes Applies AI to Climate Models of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Excerpt from The Brink | By: Molly Glass | March 4, 2026 | Photo: Jackie Ricciardi<\/p>\n

Anyone who\u2019s been caught in a storm without an umbrella understands the importance of having reliable weather forecasts. The challenge is that these predictions rely on a vast\u2014and constantly fluctuating\u2014set of variables, including temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind, and precipitation. So for researchers such as Elizabeth \u201cLibby\u201d A. Barnes<\/a>, Boston University\u2019s inaugural Dalton Family Chair in Environmental Data Science & Sustainability, the application of artificial intelligence (AI)\u2014and its ability to crunch vast amounts of data\u2014to Earth science is a natural fit.<\/p>\n

Together with her research group, Barnes\u2019 focus is on understanding the Earth system\u2014that is, how our planet\u2019s air, water, land, ice, and many life-forms might influence each other and change across time and place\u2014all to improve our prediction of climate and extreme weather on timescales from days to decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cLibby embodies what the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) was created to do,\u201d says Azer Bestavros<\/a>, Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences. \u201cCDS is really not about computer science or data science or AI on their own\u2014it\u2019s about how they transform disciplines. In her work, Libby doesn\u2019t see separate disciplines; she sees these all as tools for solving broad, complex problems. That\u2019s the definition of convergent research.\u201d<\/h5>\n

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Read about Professor Libby Barnes’ and her research group’s work in the application of artificial intelligence to Earth science and making climate predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25279,"featured_media":19603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251,5,391,883,35,274,244,1],"tags":[377,899,895,299,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19600"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19609,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions\/19609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}