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Prof. Mike Pritchard is an Associate Professor At UC Irvine, and the Director Of Climate Simulation Research At NVIDIA. His research focuses on advancing understanding of how the planetary water cycle works, and how it may change in the future, focusing especially on cloud physics and moist convection processes. His tools are a blend of next-generation global atmospheric simulation algorithms, theoretical climate dynamics, and high-performance computing. Projects are guided by the problems of interest, and are intentionally explorative of new potentially breakthrough physical algorithms that attempt to avoid traditional approximations of cloud physics in global climate simulations. Lately this has meant significant exploration of emerging tools in the data sciences such as deep machine learning for physical process emulation and neural-network assisted dynamical inquiry. He now holds a partial industry appointment: In July 2022 , he began leading a new research group at NVIDIA as their Director of Climate Simulation Research, helping lead their Earth-2 climate simulation initiative.

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