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In 500 machine-learning papers on weather and climate since 2018, the commonest fields, methods and countries were identified, with wind, Deep Learning and China first.

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What the paper says, word for word

“With the created database, it was also possible to extract the most commonly examined meteorological fields (wind, precipitation, temperature, pressure, and radiation), methods (Deep Learning, Random Forest, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machine, and XGBoost), and countries (China, USA, Australia, India, and Germany) in these topics.”

From Bochenek and Ustrnul (2022), DOI 10.3390/atmos13020180. Quote verified against the publisher's abstract on 23 Oct 2026.

Random Forest:: A machine-learning method that combines the predictions of many decision trees to give a more reliable result.
XGBoost:: A machine-learning method that builds a series of decision trees, each correcting the errors of the previous ones.
Support Vector Machine:: A machine-learning method that classifies data by finding the boundary that best separates different groups.

The paper

Machine Learning in Weather Prediction and Climate Analyses—Applications and Perspectives

Bogdan Bochenek and Zbigniew Ustrnul

Atmosphere · published 2022 · DOI 10.3390/atmos13020180

The authors analysed the 500 most relevant articles since 2018 on machine learning in climate and numerical weather prediction, mapping common topics, and expect machine learning to be key in future forecasting.

Cited: 330 times

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The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 23 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.

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The claim describes what this body of research has focused on: which weather variables, which machine-learning techniques and which countries appear most often. This gives readers a map of where activity in the field is concentrated. It could help researchers see which approaches are widely used and which areas may be less explored. The ranking reflects the authors' sample of 500 articles, not all research.

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What the authors did
They searched Google Scholar for the 500 most relevant articles published since 2018 on machine learning in climate and numerical weather prediction. They built a database from the abstracts and extracted common topics, fields, methods and countries.
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What they found
- The most common topics were identified: in weather prediction, photovoltaic and wind energy and atmospheric physics and processes; in climate research, parametrizations, extreme events and climate change.
- The most examined meteorological fields were wind, precipitation, temperature, pressure and radiation.
- The most common methods were Deep Learning, Random Forest, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machine and XGBoost, and the leading countries were China, USA, Australia, India and Germany.
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Refuted if an independently reproduced list of the most frequently mentioned meteorological fields, machine learning methods, and contributing countries in the same 500 articles differs from wind, precipitation, temperature, pressure, radiation; Deep Learning, Random Forest, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machine, XGBoost; China, USA, Australia, India, Germany.

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uncheckedThe most common topics of interest in the abstracts were identified, and some of them examined in detail: in numerical weather prediction research—photovoltaic and wind energy, atmospheric physics and processes; in clim…

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