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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Correcting Coarse‐Grid Weather and Climate Models by Machine Learning From Global Storm‐Resolving Simulations

   Bretherton, Henn, Kwa et al. · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Forecasts of 850 hPa temperature gain 18 hr of skill at 3–7 days leads and time‐mean precipitation patterns are improved 30% by applying the ML correction.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Improving medium-range ensemble weather forecasts with hierarchical ensemble transformers

   Bouallègue, Weyn, Clare, Dramsch, Dueben and Chantry · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The paper introduces PoET, a hierarchical transformer that post-processes each member of an ensemble weather forecast to give calibrated members with improved reliability.

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   1. UncheckedPoET, a transformer-based post-processing method, improved global forecast skill by up to 20% for 2m temperature and 2% for precipitation, beating a simpler benchmark.“Performance assessments show that PoET can bring up to 20% improvement in skill globally for 2m temperature and 2% for precipitation forecasts and outperforms the simpler statistical member-by-member method, used here as a competitive benchmark.”