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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   A Moist Physics Parameterization Based on Deep Learning

   Han, Zhang, Huang and Wang · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2020

   The authors trained a residual neural network, ResCu, on superparameterized climate model output to stand in for moist physics, and tested it on independent data and in single-column model runs.

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   1. UncheckedOn a held-out year of data, the neural network ResCu reproduces the SPCAM simulation's time mean and temporal variance accurately, according to the paper.“In the independent data test, ResCu can accurately reproduce the SPCAM simulation in both time mean and temporal variance.”
   2. UncheckedIn this study, a residual convolutional neural network (ResNet) performed better than the other neural network designs it was compared with.“Comparison with other neural networks demonstrates the superior performance of ResNet architecture.”
   3. UncheckedIn a tropical convection test, a deep-learning scheme (ResCu) gave smaller temperature and moisture biases than conventional convection and cloud schemes.“In the prognostic test of tropical convection case, the simulated temperature and moisture biases with ResCu are smaller than those using conventional convection and cloud parameterizations.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Data‐Driven Medium‐Range Weather Prediction With a Resnet Pretrained on Climate Simulations: A New Model for WeatherBench

   Rasp and Thuerey · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2021

   The authors trained a residual neural network, pretrained on climate simulations, to forecast weather up to 5 days ahead at coarse resolution, and tested it on the WeatherBench benchmark.

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   1. UncheckedA neural network forecasting up to 5 days ahead beat earlier WeatherBench entries and matched a physical model run at similar resolution.“The resulting forecasts outperform previous submissions to WeatherBench and are comparable in skill to a physical baseline at similar resolution.”