Ecology and environment
Project
EcoPod
EcoPod is a temporary pop-up lab experience designed to engage communities with local environmental data and expertise for climate resilience.
Microsoft Research Blog
Micro-climate predictions: Enabling hyper-local decisions for agriculture and renewables
It is springtime in Eastern Washington, USA, and the temperature is slightly above freezing. A farmer is preparing to fertilize his fields of wheat and lentils as winter runoff and frost are nearly finished. The…
Group
Environmental Sustainability Research
In the Environmental Sustainability Research group, we are working on a wide portfolio of research projects that push the state of the art in economics, science, and engineering to make Microsoft, our customers, and the…
Publication
Learned Benchmarks for Subseasonal Forecasting
Group
Computational Sustainability
In order to reduce the risks and impacts of climate change, global efforts to keep the average temperature rise within 1.5 degrees Celsius are of great significance to all mankind. In this context, many countries…
Tool
Subseasonal Data Python Package
The subseasonal_data package provides an API for loading and manipulating the SubseasonalClimateUSA dataset developed for training and benchmarking subseasonal forecasting models. Here, subseasonal refers to climate and weather forecasts made 2-6 weeks in advance. See…
Video
Urban Air Chicago
Microsoft Research has partnered with JCDecaux and Array of Things to deploy over 100 low-cost air pollution sensors across the city of Chicago to create the densest real-time air quality monitoring network deployed in any…
