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11 claims from 9 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   FengWu: Pushing the Skillful Global Medium-range Weather Forecast beyond 10 Days Lead

   Chen, Han, Gong et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“In addition, the inference cost of each iteration is merely 600ms on NVIDIA Tesla A100 hardware.”
   2. Unchecked“The results suggest that FengWu can significantly improve the forecast skill and extend the skillful global medium-range weather forecast out to 10.75 days lead (with ACC of z500 > 0.6) for the first time.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Forecasting Global Weather with Graph Neural Networks

   Keisler · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Test performance on metrics such as Z500 (geopotential height) and T850 (temperature) improves upon previous data-driven approaches and is comparable to operational, full-resolution, physical models from GFS and ECMWF, at least when evaluated on 1-degree sca…

3. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Pangu-Weather: A 3D High-Resolution Model for Fast and Accurate Global Weather Forecast

   Bi, Xie, Zhang, Chen, Gu and Tian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“There are two key strategies to improve the prediction accuracy: (i) designing a 3D Earth Specific Transformer (3DEST) architecture that formulates the height (pressure level) information into cubic data, and (ii) applying a hierarchical temporal aggregation…

4. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Temperature forecasting by deep learning methods

   Gong, Langguth, Ji et al. · Geoscientific model development · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Including the 850 hPa temperature as an additional predictor enhances the forecast quality, and the model also benefits from a larger spatial domain.”

5. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   FuXi: A cascade machine learning forecasting system for 15-day global weather forecast

   Chen, Zhong, Zhang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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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…

6. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Data-driven forecasts of extreme weather in East Asia: feasibility of operational use

   Oh, Bae, Son et al. · Weather and Climate Extremes · 2026

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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.”

7. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   FuXi-S2S: A machine learning model that outperforms conventional global subseasonal forecast models

   Chen, Zhong, Li et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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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.”

8. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Community Research Earth Digital Intelligence Twin: a scalable framework for AI-driven Earth System Modeling

   Schreck, Sha, Chapman et al. · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Our findings show that both FUXI and WXFormer, trained on six-hourly ERA5 hybrid sigma-pressure levels, generally outperform IFS HRES in 10-day forecasts, offering potential improvements in efficiency and forecast accuracy.”

9. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Analyzing and Exploring Training Recipes for Large-Scale Transformer-Based Weather Prediction

   Willard, Harrington, Subramanian, Mahesh, O'Brien and Collins · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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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.”