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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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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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…
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Programmes Without a Yardstick: Digital Skills in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan has been running national digital skills programmes for almost a decade. They have names that change with each administration…
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Cheaper at the End of the Pipe: Why Mobile Data Costs Less in Kyrgyzstan Than in the Country It Transits Through
One of the more useful observations to come out of working at the country’s transit and exchange layer is also…
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The Layer You Don’t See: Notes from Inside Kyrgyzstan’s Internet Backbone
Most conversations about connectivity in Kyrgyzstan happen at the household level — bars on a phone, the price of a…
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.