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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Can Machines Learn to Predict Weather? Using Deep Learning to Predict Gridded 500‐hPa Geopotential Height From Historical Weather Data

   Weyn, Durran and Caruana · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2019

   The authors trained deep convolutional neural networks on past weather data to forecast 500-hPa height on a Northern Hemisphere grid, and compared them with simple baselines and physics-based models.

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   1. UncheckedFor forecasts up to 3 days, CNNs predicting only 500-hPa height beat simple and barotropic baselines but not an operational full-physics model.“At forecast lead times up to 3 days, CNNs trained to predict only 500‐hPa geopotential height easily outperform persistence, climatology, and the dynamics‐based barotropic vorticity model, but do not beat an operational full‐physics weather prediction model.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' best convolutional neural network reproduces 500-hPa height climatology and annual variability and forecasts realistic atmospheric states 14 days ahead.“Our best performing CNN does a good job of capturing the climatology and annual variability of 500‐hPa heights and is capable of forecasting realistic atmospheric states at lead times of 14 days.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Can a Machine Learning–Enabled Numerical Model Help Extend Effective Forecast Range through Consistently Trained Subgrid-Scale Models?

   Qu and Shi · Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems · 2022

   The authors trained a machine-learning model of unresolved small-scale turbulence with a differentiable solver in the loop, and it lengthened the effective forecast lead time of a low-resolution fluid model.

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   1. Unchecked“However, given initial conditions long after the training dataset time, the trained SGS model can still significantly increase the effective lead time of the BVE model running at the low resolution by up to 50% relative to the BVE simulation without an SGS m…
   2. UncheckedIn this study, normalising the training loss with a covariance matrix notably improved the machine-learning subgrid-scale model's performance.“We also tested using a covariance matrix to normalize the loss function and found it can notably boost the performance of the ML parameterization.”