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62 claims from 38 papers, showing 21–38 of 38

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Machine Learning Methods in Weather and Climate Applications: A Survey

   Chen, Han, Wang, Zhao, Yang and Yang · Applied Sciences · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Current literature tends to focus narrowly on either short-term weather or medium-to-long-term climate forecasting, often neglecting the relationship between the two, as well as general neglect of modelling structure and recent advances.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Evaluation of five global AI models for predicting weather in Eastern Asia and Western Pacific

   Liu, Hsu, Peng et al. · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“A multi-model ensemble, constructed by averaging predictions from the five models, demonstrates superior performance, rivaling that of FengWu.”
   2. Unchecked“For the 11 typhoons in 2023, FengWu demonstrates the most accurate track prediction; however, it also has the largest intensity errors.”

3. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   A data-to-forecast machine learning system for global weather

   Sun, Zhong, Xu et al. · Nature Communications · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“FuXi Weather generates reliable 10-day forecasts at 0.25° resolution using fewer observations than conventional NWP systems.”
   2. Unchecked“FuXi Weather outperforms the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts high-resolution forecasts beyond day one in observation-sparse regions such as central Africa, highlighting its potential to improve forecasts where observational infrastructure…

4. Earth and Planetary Sciences

   arXiv 2404.17652

   arXiv 2404.17652: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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   1. Unchecked“We find that ML weather prediction models locally achieve similar accuracy to HRES on the record-shattering Pacific Northwest heatwave but underperform when aggregated over space and time.”

5. Earth and Planetary Sciences

   DOI 10.5194/gmd-17-7915-2024

   DOI 10.5194/gmd-17-7915-2024: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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   1. Unchecked“However, the performance of data-driven models varies by region, type of extreme event, and forecast lead time.”
   2. Unchecked“Notably, data-driven models appear to perform best for temperature extremes in regions closer to the tropics and at shorter lead times.”

6. Earth and Planetary Sciences

   arXiv 2208.05419

   arXiv 2208.05419: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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   1. Unchecked“We report that a data-driven deep learning Earth system emulator, FourCastNet, can predict global weather and generate medium-range forecasts five orders-of-magnitude faster than NWP while approaching state-of-the-art accuracy.”
   2. Unchecked“FourCast-Net is optimized and scales efficiently on three supercomputing systems: Selene, Perlmutter, and JUWELS Booster up to 3,808 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, attaining 140.8 petaFLOPS in mixed precision (11.9%of peak at that scale).”
   3. Unchecked“The time-to-solution for training FourCastNet measured on JUWELS Booster on 3,072GPUs is 67.4minutes, resulting in an 80,000times faster time-to-solution relative to state-of-the-art NWP, in inference.”

7. Earth and Planetary Sciences

   DOI 10.1093/nsr/nwag063

   DOI 10.1093/nsr/nwag063: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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   1. Unchecked“The most promising path forward is identified as the development of hybrid physics–AI modeling, which integrates the data-driven power of AI with the foundational constraints of physical laws to ensure generalizability and causal consistency.”
   2. Unchecked“A new framework for AI-based model intercomparison is essential for rigorous benchmark performance.”

8. Earth and Planetary Sciences

   arXiv 2306.12873

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   1. Unchecked“The performance evaluation, based on latitude-weighted root mean square error (RMSE) and anomaly correlation coefficient (ACC), demonstrates that FuXi has comparable forecast performance to ECMWF EM in 15-day forecasts, making FuXi the first ML-based weather…

9. Earth and Planetary Sciences

   DOI 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104526

   DOI 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104526: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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   1. Unchecked“The MLP algorithm showed satisfactory performances (weighted-F1-score of 0.94) to estimate the relative importance of input features.”

10. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    DOI 10.1016/j.wace.2026.100875

    DOI 10.1016/j.wace.2026.100875: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Overall forecast skills increase when MLWP models are initialized with ERA5 reanalysis, highlighting the importance of initial conditions even in MLWP.”

11. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    DOI 10.3390/atmos15070837

    DOI 10.3390/atmos15070837: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“The concept serves as a bridge between the hypothetical predictability limit and practical model capabilities, suggesting that long-range simulations are not entirely constrained by the two-week predictability hypothesis.”

12. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    DOI 10.1029/2024ms004437

    DOI 10.1029/2024ms004437: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, our method demonstrates effective performance when starting from background fields of varying qualities, consistently achieving stable results.”

13. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    DOI 10.5194/gmd-18-5781-2025

    DOI 10.5194/gmd-18-5781-2025: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“For wet extremes, the GraphCast tends to outperform the IFS HRES when using the total precipitation of ERA5 reanalysis data as the ground truth.”
    2. Unchecked“For warm extremes, Pangu-Weather, GraphCast and FuXi tend to be more skillful than the IFS HRES within 3 d lead time but become less skillful as lead time increases.”

14. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    arXiv 2303.17195

    arXiv 2303.17195: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Performance assessments show that PoET can bring up to 20% improvement in skill globally for 2m temperature and 2% for precipitation forecasts and outperforms the simpler statistical member-by-member method, used here as a competitive benchmark.”

15. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    arXiv 2312.09926

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    1. Unchecked“FuXi-S2S, trained on 72 years of daily statistics from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis data, outperforms the ECMWF's state-of-the-art Subseasonal-to-Seasonal model in ensemble mean and ensemble forecasts for total precipitation and outgoing longwave radiation, notably…
    2. Unchecked“The improved performance of FuXi-S2S can be primarily attributed to its superior capability to capture forecast uncertainty and accurately predict the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), extending the skillful MJO prediction from 30 days to 36 days.”

16. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    arXiv 2404.19630

    arXiv 2404.19630: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, we train a minimally modified SwinV2 transformer on ERA5 data, and find that it attains superior forecast skill when compared against IFS.”

17. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    arXiv 2311.06253

    arXiv 2311.06253: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Yet, at one-week lead times, its skill is only about one day behind both SOTA ML forecast models and the SOTA numerical weather prediction model from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.”
    2. Unchecked“Without any loss of spectral power after the first two days, the model can be unrolled autoregressively for hundreds of steps into the future to generate realistic states of the atmosphere that respect seasonal trends, as showcased in one-year simulations.”

18. Earth and Planetary Sciences

    arXiv 2503.23953

    arXiv 2503.23953: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“The ACE2 model exhibits skilful predictions of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) with a correlation score of 0.47 (p=0.02), as well as a realistic global distribution of skill and ensemble spread.”