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2 claims from 2 papers

  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Forecasting Global Weather with Graph Neural Networks

    Keisler · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

    A graph neural network learns to advance the global 3D atmospheric state by six hours, and chaining steps gives skilful forecasts several days ahead, trained on ERA5 reanalysis or GFS forecast data.

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    1. UncheckedA graph neural network weather model matches operational GFS and ECMWF forecasts on Z500 and T850 at 1-degree scales, using reanalysis starting conditions.“Test performance on metrics such as Z500 (geopotential height) and T850 (temperature) improves upon previous data-driven approaches and is comparable to operational, full-resolution, physical models from GFS and ECMWF, at least when evaluated on 1-degree scales and when using reanalysis initial con…”
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    A generative adversarial network approach to (ensemble) weather prediction

    Bihlo · Neural Networks · 2021

    A conditional generative adversarial network was trained on ERA5 reanalysis data to forecast three weather fields over Europe 24 hours ahead, with Monte-Carlo dropout added to form an ensemble.

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    1. UncheckedMonte-Carlo dropout can turn a deep-learning weather model into a cheap ensemble forecast that improves skill and quantifies the model's uncertainty.“We further use Monte-Carlo dropout to develop an ensemble weather prediction system based purely on deep learning strategies, which is computationally cheap and further improves the skill of the forecasting model, by allowing to quantify the uncertainty in the current weather forecast as learned by…”

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