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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Stable climate simulations using a realistic general circulation model with neural network parameterizations for atmospheric moist physics and radiation processes

   Wang, Han, Xue, Yang and Zhang · Geoscientific model development · 2022

   The authors built a hybrid climate model using neural networks to emulate cloud and convection physics, sustained stable multi-year simulations with real geography, and compared its results with CAM5.

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   1. UncheckedIn multi-year runs, a hybrid machine-learning climate model simulates tropical land rainfall well and captures extreme rainfall frequency better than CAM5.“In the multi-year prognostic test, the hybrid ML–physical GCM simulates the tropical precipitation well over land and significantly improves the frequency of the precipitation extremes, which are vastly underestimated in the Community Atmospheric Model version 5 (CAM5), with a horizontal resolution…”
   2. Unchecked“Furthermore, the hybrid ML–physical GCM simulates the robust signal of the Madden–Julian oscillation with a more reasonable propagation speed than CAM5.”
   3. Unchecked“It can sustain stable simulations for over 10 years under real-world geographical boundary conditions.”

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Distilling Machine Learning's Added Value: Pareto Fronts in Atmospheric Applications

   Beucler, Grundner, Shamekh, Ukkonen, Chantry and Lagerquist · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“First, in cloud cover parameterization, we find that neural networks identify nonlinear relationships between cloud cover and its thermodynamic environment, and assimilate previously neglected features such as vertical gradients in relative humidity that imp…