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15 claims from 8 papers

  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

    Lam, Sánchez‐González, Willson et al. · Science · 2023

    The paper introduces GraphCast, a machine-learning weather model trained on reanalysis data, and reports that it beats the leading operational deterministic forecasting system on most verification targets.

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    1. UncheckedGraphCast, a machine-learning model, forecasts hundreds of weather variables 10 days ahead on a 0.25° global grid in under a minute.“It predicts hundreds of weather variables for the next 10 days at 0.25° resolution globally in under 1 minute.”
    2. UncheckedGraphCast, a machine-learning model, is reported to beat the best operational deterministic forecasts on 90% of 1380 targets and to aid severe-event prediction.“GraphCast significantly outperforms the most accurate operational deterministic systems on 90% of 1380 verification targets, and its forecasts support better severe event prediction, including tropical cyclone tracking, atmospheric rivers, and extreme temperatures.”
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

    Lam, Sánchez‐González, Willson et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“It predicts hundreds of weather variables, over 10 days at 0.25 degree resolution globally, in under one minute.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that GraphCast significantly outperforms the most accurate operational deterministic systems on 90% of 1380 verification targets, and its forecasts support better severe event prediction, including tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers, and extreme t…
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Do AI models produce better weather forecasts than physics-based models? A quantitative evaluation case study of Storm Ciarán

    Charlton-Perez, Dacre, Driscoll et al. · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“The four machine learning models considered (FourCastNet, Pangu-Weather, GraphCast and FourCastNet-v2) produce forecasts that accurately capture the synoptic-scale structure of the cyclone including the position of the cloud head, shape of the warm sector an…
    2. Unchecked“All of the machine learning models underestimate the peak amplitude of winds associated with the storm, only some machine learning models resolve the warm core seclusion and none of the machine learning models capture the sharp bent-back warm frontal gradien…
  4. 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.”
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Validating Deep Learning Weather Forecast Models on Recent High-Impact Extreme Events

    Pasche, Wider, Zhang, Zscheischler and Engelke · Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems · 2024

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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.”
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Do data-driven models beat numerical models in forecasting weather extremes? A comparison of IFS HRES, Pangu-Weather, and GraphCast

    Olivetti and Messori · Geoscientific model development · 2024

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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.”
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    A Practical Probabilistic Benchmark for AI Weather Models

    Brenowitz, Cohen, Pathak et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“The results reveal that two leading AI weather models, i.e. GraphCast and Pangu, are tied on the probabilistic CRPS metric even though the former outperforms the latter in deterministic scoring.”
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Physics-based models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes

    Zhang, Fischer, Zscheischler and Engelke · Science Advances · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we show that for record-breaking weather extremes, the physics-based numerical model High RESolution forecast (HRES) from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts still consistently outperforms state-of-the-art AI models GraphCast, GraphC…
    2. Unchecked“We demonstrate that forecast errors in AI models are consistently larger for record-breaking heat, cold, and wind than in HRES across nearly all lead times.”
    3. Unchecked“We further find that the examined AI models tend to underestimate both the frequency and intensity of record-breaking events, and they underpredict hot records and overestimate cold records with growing errors for larger record exceedance.”

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