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17 claims from 9 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

   Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning

   Price, Sánchez‐González, Alet et al. · Nature · 2024

   The paper introduces GenCast, a machine-learning probabilistic weather model that it reports has greater skill and speed than ENS, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts' ensemble forecast.

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   1. UncheckedGenCast, a machine-learning model, produces an ensemble of 15-day global forecasts at 0.25° resolution for over 80 variables in 8 minutes.“GenCast generates an ensemble of stochastic 15-day global forecasts, at 12-h steps and 0.25° latitude–longitude resolution, for more than 80 surface and atmospheric variables, in 8 min.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper says GenCast, a machine-learning model, beat the leading ensemble forecast, ENS, on 97.2% of 1,320 evaluated targets and on several specific forecast types.“It has greater skill than ENS on 97.2% of 1,320 targets we evaluated and better predicts extreme weather, tropical cyclone tracks and wind power production.”

3. 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.”

4. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models

   Weyn, Durran, Caruana and Cresswell‐Clay · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2021

   The authors built a fast deep-learning weather model ensemble and tested it for forecasts up to six weeks, finding it modestly behind the ECMWF sub-seasonal ensemble over land at longer lead times.

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   1. UncheckedIn a two-year global test, the deep-learning ensemble mean beat climatology beyond two weeks, with anomaly correlation above 0.6 through six days.“Averaged globally and over a two-year test set, the ensemble mean RMSE retains skill relative to climatology beyond two-weeks, with anomaly correlation coefficients remaining above 0.6 through six days.”
   2. UncheckedA deep-learning ensemble forecast is only modestly worse than the ECMWF sub-seasonal ensemble over land at lead times of 4 and 5-6 weeks.“The continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) and the ranked probability skill score (RPSS) show that the DLWP ensemble is only modestly inferior in performance to the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) S2S ensemble over land at lead times of 4 and 5-6 weeks.”

5. 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

   The paper presents Pangu-Weather, a deep learning system trained on 43 years of ERA5 data that forecasts global weather at 0.25° resolution and is reported to beat a leading numerical forecasting system.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says two strategies improve Pangu-Weather's accuracy: a 3D Earth-specific transformer that treats height as cubic data, and hierarchical temporal aggregation.“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 algorithm to alleviate cumulative foreca…”

6. Environmental Science › Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

   Short‐Term Precipitation Prediction for Contiguous United States Using Deep Learning

   Chen and Wang · Geophysical Research Letters · 2022

   A 3D convolutional neural network trained on 39 years of US meteorology and rainfall data is reported to predict precipitation well, alone and combined with weather-model forecasts.

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   1. UncheckedA trained neural network alone is reported to beat state-of-the-art weather models at predicting daily total US precipitation, at forecast leads of up to 5 days.“First, the trained network alone outperforms the state-of-the-art weather models in predicting daily total precipitation, and the superiority of the network extends to forecast leads up to 5 days.”
   2. Unchecked“Second, combining the network predictions with the weather-model forecasts significantly improves the accuracy of model forecasts, especially for heavy-precipitation events.”
   3. UncheckedThe network makes a prediction in milliseconds, which the authors say makes it practical to run many ensemble forecasts to improve accuracy further.“Third, the millisecond-scale inference time of the network facilitates large ensemble predictions for further accuracy improvement.”

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. UncheckedTwo leading AI weather models, GraphCast and Pangu, score the same on the probabilistic CRPS metric, though GraphCast does better on deterministic scoring.“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

   A fast physics-based perturbation generator of machine learning weather model for efficient ensemble forecasts of tropical cyclone track

   Pu, Mu, Feng, Zhong and Li · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2025

   The authors built a fast, physics-based way to perturb an AI weather model's starting conditions for tropical cyclone track ensembles, which they report outperform ECMWF forecasts, including with 2000 members.

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   1. Unchecked“Based on this perturbation scheme, the TC track ensemble forecasts within the AI-based model significantly outperform those from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) for both deterministic and probabilistic metrics.”
   2. UncheckedRunning tropical cyclone track forecasts with 2000 ensemble members, a first, improved skill in the probability distribution and extreme scenarios of storm movement.“Notably, we conduct TC track forecasts with 2000 members for the first time, achieving further enhanced forecast skills in probability distribution and extreme scenarios of TC movement.”
   3. Unchecked“These initial perturbations are conditioned on specific amplitude and spatial characteristics, exhibiting physically reasonable dynamical growth and spatial covariance.”

9. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Ensemble Methods for Neural Network‐Based Weather Forecasts

   Scher and Messori · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“The ensemble mean forecasts obtained from these four approaches all beat the unperturbed neural network forecasts, with the retraining method yielding the highest improvement.”
   2. Unchecked“However, the skill of the neural network forecasts is systematically lower than that of state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction models.”