Focus Area / Climate Change
Glaciers, Heatwaves, and What AI Can See
KG Labs leads climate AI research in the Third Pole — testing machine learning architectures on terrain that most global weather models treat as a calibration gap. The work began with heatwave prediction and has since evolved toward glacial lake outburst flood forecasting.
489,000
heat-related deaths/year (WHO 2019)
30%
glacial volume lost, Tien Shan since 1960
4 km
resolution of current AI forecast models
Posts
Research & Writing
AI Research · Third Pole · May 2025
What the Mountain Already Knows
KG Labs and the Vector Institute tested two AI architectures on Kyrgyzstan’s high-mountain terrain — beginning with heatwave prediction and evolving toward glacial lake outburst flood forecasting.
Edge AI · Climate · April 2025
EdgeAI for Climate Resilience
Deploying TinyML and LoRaWAN sensor networks in low-infrastructure mountain environments — a framework for disaster forecasting where connectivity is intermittent and compute is scarce.
Programme · Climate AI
AI for Climate Action
The programme overview: how KG Labs frames AI-assisted climate monitoring and early warning as applied research in under-instrumented mountain terrain.
ClimateTech & Resilience
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Form 083, Tunduk, and the Annual Paper Trail Behind Every Kyrgyz Schoolchild
The interoperability rails are built. The data protection law is in place. What is missing is a narrowly-scoped exchange service…
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What Happens at Sary-Chelek When the Road Closes
Sary-Chelek Lake sits above 2,000 metres in the Tian Shan foothills of western Kyrgyzstan, inside a biosphere reserve that ornithologists…
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Community Signal KG 2025
The Community Signal — 2025 AI-сообщество Кыргызстана. Итоги 2025 года. 2025 — это год, в котором локальная AI-сцена страны перестала…
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Community Signal KG
The Community Signal — Q4 2025 AI-сообщество Кыргызстана. октябрь — декабрь 2025. Четвёртый квартал 2025 года — это период, в…
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What the Mountain Already Knows
In the Naryn valley, the river color is the signal. Communities upstream of the high-altitude lakes have read it for…
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Less than 100,000 som: clearing the smoke from a school in Kara-Dyikan
This spring we drove through the secondary schools of Osh and Batken oblasts as part of a sub-grant from the…
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Mountain Future Award 2025 — Notes from FAO Rome on a Kyrgyz climate-monitoring project
On 11 December 2025, at the head office of the Mountain Partnership inside the Food and Agriculture Organization of the…
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What’s Plumbed In, and What Isn’t: Reading Tunduk’s 2024 Monitoring Data
In 2016 and 2017, sitting first as a public adviser in the Presidential Administration and then in the Office of…
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Score Up, Posture Open: Reading Past Kyrgyzstan’s Global Cybersecurity Index
On the headline number, Kyrgyzstan’s cybersecurity has measurably improved. The country’s score on the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) rose…
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Back at the pole of cold: testing the kit at minus eight on the Chatyr-Kul shore
In Kyrgyzstan’s Ak-Sai valley, in Naryn oblast, temperatures have been recorded as low as minus forty-eight and a half degrees…
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After the Access Question: Where Kyrgyzstan’s Real Digital Gap Lives
The most useful thing to say about the digital divide in Kyrgyzstan in 2025 is also the most awkward to…
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Community Signal
The Community Signal — Q3 2025 AI-сообщество Кыргызстана. июль — сентябрь 2025. Третий квартал 2025 года — это, по совокупности…
Field Notes
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Form 083, Tunduk, and the Annual Paper Trail Behind Every Kyrgyz Schoolchild
The interoperability rails are built. The data protection law is in place. What is missing is a narrowly-scoped exchange service…
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What Happens at Sary-Chelek When the Road Closes
Sary-Chelek Lake sits above 2,000 metres in the Tian Shan foothills of western Kyrgyzstan, inside a biosphere reserve that ornithologists…
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Community Signal KG 2025
The Community Signal — 2025 AI-сообщество Кыргызстана. Итоги 2025 года. 2025 — это год, в котором локальная AI-сцена страны перестала…
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Stories
Field Narratives
Field Research · Kyrgyzstan · Third Pole
What the Mountain Already Knows: Testing AI Against the Third Pole’s Weather
KG Labs brought the research framework. ISOC Kyrgyz Chapter brought the sensor datasets. Vector Institute brought two model architectures. What began as a heatwave prediction hypothesis became a more difficult question about glacial lake outburst floods — and about what it means to build AI for terrain that global models have historically simplified.
Aziz Soltobaev — May 2025 — Read the story →
Field Research · EdgeAI · Kyrgyzstan
EdgeAI for Climate Resilience in Mountain Terrain
What does it look like to deploy edge AI in a place where the nearest stable power connection may be forty kilometres away? A look at the architecture choices, hardware constraints, and sensor placement decisions behind KG Labs’ mountain monitoring framework.
KG Labs Research — April 2025 — Read the story →
People
Research Team
Gulbara Omorova
Glaciologist
Digital Repositories
Datasets & Research
Machine-readable datasets and research outputs from KG Labs and its partners. All items listed here exist as files in the repository.
Featured — Glacier Datasets
Catalogue of Glaciers of Kyrgyzstan (CAIAG 2018)
Shabunin, A.G. / Ed. Moldobekov B.D. — Full Markdown conversion plus 464 extracted data tables (MD + CSV). Covers all 22 river basins, Landsat 8 imagery 2013–2016 at 15 m resolution, 70-year area change analysis.
Dataset · MD · CSV · RU · 2018 · CAIAG, Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan Glacier Catalog — Structured JSON Dataset
Machine-readable edition of the Soviet-era glacier catalogue (Tom 14, Vypusk 2). 11 basin JSON records, 2 manifest files, README. Compiled by KG Labs, 2024. Source: Hydrometeoizdat, 1967–1986.
JSON · MD · EN/RU · 2024 — View dataset →
SDSS — Sensor Data Storage System (CAIAG / GFZ)
Web platform for Central Asian sensor network data. Jointly operated by CAIAG and GFZ — German Research Centre for Geosciences. Hydro-meteorological in-situ station data across the region. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-1289-2021.
Sensor Data Platform · Web/API · EN/RU/KY · v3.0.0 2020 — Open SDSS →
Research Partners
Vector Institute (Canada) · BE Node / Başlangıç Noktası (Turkey) · Central Asian Institute of Applied Geosciences — CAIAG · GFZ — German Research Centre for Geosciences · Institute of Water Problems, Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan · Tien Shan High Mountain Research Center · Sary-Chelek Biosphere Park Administration · Ilbirs Foundation · Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic · Internet Society Kyrgyzstan Chapter
Support the Research
Partner With KG Labs on Climate Research
KG Labs is actively seeking research partners, institutional collaborators, and development support for Phase 2 of the Third Pole forecasting project — expanding from heatwave models to glacial lake outburst flood prediction.