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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W4391392529","title":"Machine Learning for Online Sea Ice Bias Correction Within Global Ice‐Ocean Simulations","authors":["William King Gregory","Mitchell Bushuk","Yongfei Zhang","Alistair Adcroft","Laure Zanna"],"authorCount":5,"venue":"Geophysical Research Letters","year":2024,"type":"article","citedBy":24,"keywords":["data assimilation","convolutional neural networks","data augmentation","sea ice concentration","ice-ocean model","machine learning"],"topic":{"topic":"Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics","subfield":"Atmospheric Science","field":"Earth and Planetary Sciences","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-25T02:45:57.195Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Large summertime sea ice errors left after an initial neural-network correction can be significantly reduced by retraining it on data from a new corrected simulation.","did":"They applied a convolutional neural network, trained earlier to predict data assimilation increments, within a GFDL global ice-ocean model. 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