# Manchester team uses Nvidia Earth-2 for UK pollution forecasts

_Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 3:06 AM EDT · AI, Science · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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The University of Manchester and Nvidia said they trained an Earth-2 CorrDiff model on simulated UK pollution data to produce a 2-3 square-kilometer pollution model. The team said training took two days on a single eight-GPU Isambard-AI node, while inference and smaller training runs can use Nvidia's DGX Spark system. It also added Earth-2 StormCast for time-dependent forecasts using air-quality observations.

## Sources

- [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/uk-air-pollution-research-earth-2/)

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