{"id":241620,"date":"2026-07-27T04:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ai-powered-system-offers-unprecedented-insight-into-the-forces-shaping-earths-climate"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:05:47","slug":"ai-powered-system-offers-unprecedented-insight-into-the-forces-shaping-earths-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ai-powered-system-offers-unprecedented-insight-into-the-forces-shaping-earths-climate","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered system offers unprecedented insight into the forces shaping Earth\u2019s climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-powered-system-offers-unprecedented-insight-into-the-forces-shaping-earths-climate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s oceans may appear calm from space, but beneath the surface, an intricate web of fast-moving currents drives Earth\u2019s climate. Now, a new study led by Tel Aviv University has unveiled a breakthrough that allows scientists to observe these hidden motions with unprecedented clarity.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers developed GOFLOW, an artificial intelligence-powered system that can reconstruct high-resolution ocean current patterns directly from satellite images. The technology provides scientists with an entirely new way to study the small-scale ocean dynamics that influence weather, climate change and the exchange of heat and gases between the ocean and atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by Roy Barkan, a professor, physical oceanographer and fluid dynamics expert in Tel Aviv University\u2019s Department of Geophysics at the Faculty of Exact Sciences. The research was conducted in collaboration with scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCLA and the University of Rhode Island, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-026-01943-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Geoscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s oceans may appear calm from space, but beneath the surface, an intricate web of fast-moving currents drives Earth\u2019s climate. Now, a new study led by Tel Aviv University has unveiled a breakthrough that allows scientists to observe these hidden motions with unprecedented clarity. The researchers developed GOFLOW, an artificial intelligence-powered system that can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}