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6 claims from 4 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Toward Data‐Driven Weather and Climate Forecasting: Approximating a Simple General Circulation Model With Deep Learning

   Scher · Geophysical Research Letters · 2018

   A deep neural network trained on a simple general circulation model can forecast the model's state ahead and, run repeatedly on its own output, produce a climate with similar statistics.

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   1. Unchecked“Additionally, after being initialized with an arbitrary model state, the network can through repeatedly feeding back its predictions into its inputs create a climate run, which has similar climate statistics to the climate of the general circulation model.”
   2. UncheckedA neural-network climate run, made by feeding its predictions back in, shows no long-term drift despite no built-in conservation properties.“This network climate run shows no long‐term drift, even though no conservation properties were explicitly designed into the network.”
   3. UncheckedA deep neural network can emulate the dynamics of a simple general circulation model, according to this 2018 paper.“It is shown that it is possible to emulate the dynamics of a simple general circulation model with a deep neural network.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Weather and climate forecasting with neural networks: using general circulation models (GCMs) with different complexity as a study ground

   Scher and Messori · Geoscientific model development · 2019

   The authors trained deep neural networks on two simple climate models of differing complexity to test whether they can forecast weather a few days ahead and reproduce model climate.

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   1. UncheckedNeural networks reproducing the climate of simple climate models with a seasonal cycle remains challenging, unlike earlier results for a model without one.“Additionally, we show that using the neural networks to reproduce the climate of general circulation models including a seasonal cycle remains challenging – in contrast to earlier promising results on a model without seasonal cycle.”

3. Environmental Science › Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

   A Performance Comparison Study on Climate Prediction in Weifang City Using Different Deep Learning Models

   Guo, He, Wang, Qiao, Zhu and Chen · Water · 2024

   The study compared several deep learning models for predicting climate in Weifang City, China, using 73 years of data, and reports a hybrid CNN-LSTM-GRU as the best performer for air temperature.

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   1. UncheckedFor monthly average air temperature in Weifang City, a hybrid CNN-LSTM-GRU model scored best among the deep learning models compared.“The CNN-LSTM-GRU for MAAT prediction is the best-performing model compared to other deep learning models with the highest correlation coefficient (R = 0.9879) and lowest root mean square error (RMSE = 1.5347) and mean absolute error (MAE = 1.1830).”

4. 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

   A survey of over 20 machine learning methods for weather and climate prediction, picking out eight promising techniques and noting that ML is more capable for short-term weather than for long-term climate.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says existing studies usually cover either short-term weather or longer-term climate forecasting, rarely linking them or examining model structure.“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.”