The Salient platform provides access to gridded data for all model outputs (and historical data) on a unified grid.
- Global extent
- Salient GEM generative AI model that produces daily ensemble trajectories (North America only)
- Salient Blend proprietary ****multi-model blend of our proprietary climatology, AI models with properly calibrated dynamical (GEFS and ECMWF) models
- Consolidated Access to government models (NOAA GEFS + GFS, ECMWF ENS extended range + SEAS5)
- Direct Delivery Short-term Forecasts (GEFS v12 and EC ENS 15 medium range) available shortly after they are released publicly
- Salient’s probabilistic climatological forecasts provide full probabilistic distributions that characterize the uncertainty around the calculated climatological mean

Figure 1: Map of timescales to available models
Salient GEM
GEM employs a novel hybrid architecture with two main components:
- The Statistical Generative Model (SGM) generates sample trajectories of key atmospheric state variables, which serve as conditioning for the second component.
- A Diffusion model (using deep learning) that creates high-resolution trajectories for all output variables, incorporating the SGM output as guidance.
Model Name
API model
: gem
Spatial Resolution
The Salient forecast has spatial coverage for North America and provides forecasts for latitude-longitude grid points at 0.25 x 0.25 degrees (25 km) resolution.
Salient GEM Temporal Resolution and Update Frequency
Timescale (UI) |
API timescale |
Horizon |
Update Frequency |
Initialization Time |
Availability post-initialization |
Daily |
daily |
Days 1-100 |
Daily |
00z |
0800z |
Salient Blend
The Salient Blend model is a multi-model blend of our proprietary climatology, AI models (natively probabilistic and calibrated by design) with properly calibrated dynamical (GEFS and ECMWF) models.