A Stanford University-founded startup hopes to change how climate data is collected and reported. Their solution: use artificial intelligence-powered weather balloons to upend forecasts.
WindBorne, a Palo Alto-based company, has been dedicated to ensuring that forecasting everything from hurricanes and wildfires to daily weather is as accurate as possible, given the disruptive effects of climate change.
“Let’s say a hurricane is going to make landfall in 7 days. If you want to predict that storm accurately for both intensity and ground track, you want data from in and around the storm, so not just around the United States, but inside and around the storm above the ocean,” said John Dean, WindBorne’s CEO.
What started out as a project in a student-run club at Stanford led the four founding members — Dean, Andrey Sushko, chief technology officer, Kai Marshland, chief product officer, and Joan Creus-Costa, an engineer at the company — …