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32 claims from 19 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Accurate medium-range global weather forecasting with 3D neural networks

   Bi, Xie, Zhang, Chen, Gu and Tian · Nature · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Trained on 39 years of global data, our program, Pangu-Weather, obtains stronger deterministic forecast results on reanalysis data in all tested variables when compared with the world’s best NWP system, the operational integrated forecasting system of the Eu…

2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

   Lam, Sánchez‐González, Willson et al. · Science · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“It predicts hundreds of weather variables for the next 10 days at 0.25° resolution globally in under 1 minute.”
   2. Unchecked“GraphCast significantly outperforms the most accurate operational deterministic systems on 90% of 1380 verification targets, and its forecasts support better severe event prediction, including tropical cyclone tracking, atmospheric rivers, and extreme temper…

3. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

   Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar

   Ravuri, Lenc, Willson et al. · Nature · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“When verified quantitatively, these nowcasts are skillful without resorting to blurring.”

4. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Toward Data‐Driven Weather and Climate Forecasting: Approximating a Simple General Circulation Model With Deep Learning

   Scher · Geophysical Research Letters · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Additionally, after being initialized with an arbitrary model state, the network can through repeatedly feeding back its predictions into its inputs create a climate run, which has similar climate statistics to the climate of the general circulation model.”
   2. Unchecked“This network climate run shows no long‐term drift, even though no conservation properties were explicitly designed into the network.”
   3. Unchecked“It is shown that it is possible to emulate the dynamics of a simple general circulation model with a deep neural network.”

5. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   FourCastNet: A Global Data-driven High-resolution Weather Model using Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators

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

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   1. Unchecked“FourCastNet matches the forecasting accuracy of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), a state-of-the-art Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model, at short lead times for large-scale variables, while outperforming IFS for variables with complex fine…
   2. Unchecked“FourCastNet generates a week-long forecast in less than 2 seconds, orders of magnitude faster than IFS.”

6. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning

   Price, Sánchez‐González, Alet et al. · Nature · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“GenCast generates an ensemble of stochastic 15-day global forecasts, at 12-h steps and 0.25° latitude–longitude resolution, for more than 80 surface and atmospheric variables, in 8 min.”
   2. Unchecked“It has greater skill than ENS on 97.2% of 1,320 targets we evaluated and better predicts extreme weather, tropical cyclone tracks and wind power production.”

7. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Can Machines Learn to Predict Weather? Using Deep Learning to Predict Gridded 500‐hPa Geopotential Height From Historical Weather Data

   Weyn, Durran and Caruana · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“At forecast lead times up to 3 days, CNNs trained to predict only 500‐hPa geopotential height easily outperform persistence, climatology, and the dynamics‐based barotropic vorticity model, but do not beat an operational full‐physics weather prediction model.”
   2. Unchecked“Our best performing CNN does a good job of capturing the climatology and annual variability of 500‐hPa heights and is capable of forecasting realistic atmospheric states at lead times of 14 days.”

8. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models

   Weyn, Durran, Caruana and Cresswell‐Clay · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Averaged globally and over a two-year test set, the ensemble mean RMSE retains skill relative to climatology beyond two-weeks, with anomaly correlation coefficients remaining above 0.6 through six days.”
   2. Unchecked“The continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) and the ranked probability skill score (RPSS) show that the DLWP ensemble is only modestly inferior in performance to the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) S2S ensemble over land at lead…

9. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Analog Forecasting of Extreme‐Causing Weather Patterns Using Deep Learning

   Chattopadhyay, Nabizadeh and Hassanzadeh · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“CapsNets outperform simpler techniques such as convolutional neural networks and logistic regression.”
   2. Unchecked“Using both temperature and Z500, accuracies (recalls) with CapsNets increase to $\sim 80\%$ $(88\%)$, showing the promises of multi-modal data-driven frameworks for accurate/fast extreme weather predictions, which can augment NWP efforts in providing early w…

10. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Deep learning for post-processing ensemble weather forecasts

    Grönquist, Yao, Ben‐Nun et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Applied to global data, our mixed models achieve a relative improvement in ensemble forecast skill (CRPS) of over 14%.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, we demonstrate that the improvement is larger for extreme weather events on select case studies.”
    3. Unchecked“We also show that our post-processing can use fewer trajectories to achieve comparable results to the full ensemble.”

11. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Weather and climate forecasting with neural networks: using general circulation models (GCMs) with different complexity as a study ground

    Scher and Messori · Geoscientific model development · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Additionally, we show that using the neural networks to reproduce the climate of general circulation models including a seasonal cycle remains challenging – in contrast to earlier promising results on a model without seasonal cycle.”

12. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

    Lam, Sánchez‐González, Willson et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“It predicts hundreds of weather variables, over 10 days at 0.25 degree resolution globally, in under one minute.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that GraphCast significantly outperforms the most accurate operational deterministic systems on 90% of 1380 verification targets, and its forecasts support better severe event prediction, including tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers, and extreme t…

13. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    ClimaX: A foundation model for weather and climate

    Nguyen, Brandstetter, Kapoor, Gupta and Grover · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“The pre-trained ClimaX can then be fine-tuned to address a breadth of climate and weather tasks, including those that involve atmospheric variables and spatio-temporal scales unseen during pretraining.”

14. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    FengWu: Pushing the Skillful Global Medium-range Weather Forecast beyond 10 Days Lead

    Chen, Han, Gong et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“In addition, the inference cost of each iteration is merely 600ms on NVIDIA Tesla A100 hardware.”
    2. Unchecked“The results suggest that FengWu can significantly improve the forecast skill and extend the skillful global medium-range weather forecast out to 10.75 days lead (with ACC of z500 > 0.6) for the first time.”

15. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Forecasting Global Weather with Graph Neural Networks

    Keisler · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“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 sca…

16. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Pangu-Weather: A 3D High-Resolution Model for Fast and Accurate Global Weather Forecast

    Bi, Xie, Zhang, Chen, Gu and Tian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“There are two key strategies to improve the prediction accuracy: (i) designing a 3D Earth Specific Transformer (3DEST) architecture that formulates the height (pressure level) information into cubic data, and (ii) applying a hierarchical temporal aggregation…

17. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Machine Learning Methods for Weather Forecasting: A Survey

    Zhang, Liu, Zhang and Li · Atmosphere · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Research on specific tasks such as global weather forecasting, downscaling, extreme weather prediction, and how to combine machine learning methods with physical principles are very active in the current field.”
    2. Unchecked“However, several unresolved or challenging issues remain, including the interpretability of models and the ability to predict rare weather events.”

18. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    End-to-end data-driven weather prediction

    Allén, Markou, Tebbutt et al. · Nature · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“The global forecasts outperform an operational NWP baseline for several variables and lead times.”

19. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Temperature forecasting by deep learning methods

    Gong, Langguth, Ji et al. · Geoscientific model development · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Including the 850 hPa temperature as an additional predictor enhances the forecast quality, and the model also benefits from a larger spatial domain.”