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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   FourCastNet: Accelerating Global High-Resolution Weather Forecasting using Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators

   Kurth, Subramanian, Harrington et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper reports FourCastNet, a deep learning weather emulator that makes medium-range global forecasts far faster than physics-based prediction while approaching state-of-the-art accuracy.

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   1. Unchecked“We report that a data-driven deep learning Earth system emulator, FourCastNet, can predict global weather and generate medium-range forecasts five orders-of-magnitude faster than NWP while approaching state-of-the-art accuracy.”
   2. UncheckedThe FourCastNet weather model is reported to scale efficiently on three supercomputers, using up to 3,808 A100 GPUs and reaching 140.8 petaFLOPS in mixed precision.“FourCast-Net is optimized and scales efficiently on three supercomputing systems: Selene, Perlmutter, and JUWELS Booster up to 3,808 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, attaining 140.8 petaFLOPS in mixed precision (11.9%of peak at that scale).”
   3. UncheckedTraining FourCastNet on 3,072 GPUs of JUWELS Booster takes 67.4 minutes, and the paper puts its inference at 80,000 times faster than leading NWP.“The time-to-solution for training FourCastNet measured on JUWELS Booster on 3,072GPUs is 67.4minutes, resulting in an 80,000times faster time-to-solution relative to state-of-the-art NWP, in inference.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Leveraging Data-Driven Weather Models for Improving Numerical Weather Prediction Skill through Large-Scale Spectral Nudging

   Husain, Šeparović, Caron et al. · Weather and Forecasting · 2025

   The study compares the physics-based GEM and AI-based GraphCast weather models, then proposes a hybrid in which GEM is nudged toward GraphCast at large scales to improve forecast skill.

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   1. UncheckedIn global forecasts, GraphCast's large-scale patterns beat GEM's, especially at longer lead times, though its fine scales are overly smoothed.“Analyses of their respective global predictions in physical and spectral space reveal that GraphCast-predicted large scales outperform GEM, particularly for longer lead times, even though fine scales predicted by GraphCast suffer from excessive smoothing.”
   2. UncheckedIn a hybrid forecasting system, tropical cyclone tracks are predicted more accurately, with no significant change in storm intensity.“Additionally, trajectories of tropical cyclones are predicted with enhanced accuracy without significant changes in intensity.”