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Beyond Weather: On-demand visualizations of fine tuned AIFS models over NetCDF workarounds in one week

Beyond Weather: On-demand visualizations of fine tuned AIFS models over NetCDF workarounds in one week

May 7, 2026

The Company: Long Range AI Weather Prediction Beyond Weather is an Amsterdam-based AI weather forecasting startup with its roots in academic research. Founded in 2023 by a master's student, a PhD researcher, and a professor from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam's climate extremes and societal risk r

Margaret Francis

Margaret Francis

COO

Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data?

Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data?

April 17, 2025

Why traditional scientific file formats like NetCDF perform poorly on cloud object storage, and how cloud-optimized formats like Zarr and Icechunk solve the problem by separating metadata and chunking data.

Tom Nicholas

Tom Nicholas

Software Engineer

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