GemAI v2 Model Release is available October 14, 2025

• The v2 GemAI model GA release is available with updated hindcasts and skill metrics.
  • Access the latest version in the API by setting the model parameter = gem. You can continue to access v1 via the API until the next model upgrade using model = gemv1.

Skill improvement from GemAI v1 to v2.

• Debiasing model supports additional variables: wspd, precip, dewpoint, rh, heat_index, wind_chill. The debiasing model is available for GemAI and Blend hourly and daily downscale.

October 6 2025

New Alert emails are available so you can have your custom alerts delivered to your Inbox.

• Contact Salient to enable alert emails for your account.
• Open your User Profile page from the upper right corner of the user interface. Enable alert emails for yourself and choose whether you want to limit the alerts to specific locations.

• Salient Blend v9 hourly downscale uses the **new Debiasing** model.

• **Custom quantities can have pre-defined defaults for location list or areas and weight** type (e.g. population or wind capacity) for averaging.

• Alerts generated from multiple models, with the same risk level ,will display as one combined alert This enhancement helps to flag converging forecasts that are predicting the same risk.

  

Sept. 22, 2025

Risk Table View

Tabular view of potential risks for a list of locations including probability of exceeding thresholds

The Risk Table view shows high (red) and medium (orange) risk of 3 Consecutive Days of Freezing at U.S. airport locations. Each cell is color coded by risk level and displays the event type’s forecast probability.

**Custom Quantity support for Date Window**

A new ‘shift’ parameter supports the prediction of a data range when defined conditions are met. For example, identifying the start date of a planting window, defined as consecutive days of rainfall, is a valuable forecast in an agriculture use case.

Sept. 8, 2025

• Debiasing is available for NOAA GEFS