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14 claims from 8 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Accurate medium-range global weather forecasting with 3D neural networks

   Bi, Xie, Zhang, Chen, Gu and Tian · Nature · 2023

   The paper introduces Pangu-Weather, an AI weather forecasting method using 3D neural networks, and reports it matches or beats the leading physics-based system in medium-range global forecasts.

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   1. UncheckedPangu-Weather, an AI model trained on 39 years of global data, beat ECMWF's operational forecast on every tested variable using reanalysis data.“Trained on 39 years of global data, our program, Pangu-Weather, obtains stronger deterministic forecast results on reanalysis data in all tested variables when compared with the world’s best NWP system, the operational integrated forecasting system of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Fo…”

2. 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…

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

   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.”

8. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   An extension of WeatherBench 2 to binary hydroclimatic forecasts

   Zhao, Li, Tu and Chen · Geoscientific model development · 2025

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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.”