As evidence mounts that climate change is driving this summer’s extreme weather, artificial intelligence is helping to predict where conditions will change.

A new AI tool could allow scientists to more accurately predict whether sea ice will be present in the Arctic months into the future. IceNet is nearly 95% accurate at predicting whether sea ice will be present two months in advance, researchers say. It’s one of the growing applications of AI in predicting climate change.

“AI has significantly improved the efficiency of running complex climate models that previously required a lot of computing power,” Daniel Intolubbe-Chmil, an analyst at Harbor Research, told Lifewire in an email interview.

IceNet is working on the daunting challenge of accurately predicting Arctic sea ice extent for the coming season. Researchers described how IceNet works in a recent paper published in the journal Nature Communications.