A research lab advancing how we access, understand, and act on data about our world.

Research areas

Weather data product design

What makes a weather data product easy to use? What makes it reliable to build on?

Weather forecast evaluation

How do we evaluate which data product to use for a given decision?

Featured work

Data Product Catalog

A public, live-updating catalog of cloud-optimized weather datasets.

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Scorecard

Operational skill scores for forecast models, scored against observations.

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How we validate the catalog

Every dataset in the dynamical.org catalog ships with an automated validation report. This note walks through what those reports check, why we chose those checks, and how they fit into the pipeline that runs each time a dataset updates. It is a living document — expect it to grow as the validation suite does.

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Weather forecast production pipelines and observability

Arrival monitoring for the weather sources we depend on: when to expect each model run, whether today's run is on time, and a signed webhook the moment data crosses a readiness boundary — live at status.dynamical.org.

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Global Airport Observations (ASOS/AWOS)

Global METAR surface observations, 1940–present, as cloud-native GeoParquet — ground truth for scoring forecasts against what actually happened.

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How we validate the catalog