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physics.ao-ph2025

Crowdsourcing the Frontier: Advancing Hybrid Physics-ML Climate Simulation via a $50,000 Kaggle Competition

Jerry Lin, Zeyuan Hu, Tom Beucler +24

Subgrid machine-learning (ML) parameterizations have the potential to introduce a new generation of climate models that incorporate the effects of higher-resolution physics without…

physics.ao-ph2025★ 1 cited

Beyond the Training Data: Confidence-Guided Mixing of Parameterizations in a Hybrid AI-Climate Model

Helge Heuer, Tom Beucler, Mierk Schwabe +3

Persistent systematic errors in Earth system models (ESMs) arise from difficulties in representing the full diversity of subgrid, multiscale atmospheric convection and turbulence.…

physics.ao-ph2025

Reduced Cloud Cover Errors in a Hybrid AI-Climate Model Through Equation Discovery And Automatic Tuning

Arthur Grundner, Tom Beucler, Julien Savre +3

Cloud-related parameterizations remain a leading source of uncertainty in climate projections. Although machine learning holds promise for Earth system models (ESMs), many data-dri…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 11 cited

Lightning-Fast Convective Outlooks: Predicting Severe Convective Environments with Global AI-based Weather Models

Monika Feldmann, Tom Beucler, Milton Gomez +1

Severe convective storms are among the most dangerous weather phenomena and accurate forecasts mitigate their impacts. The recently released suite of AI-based weather models produc…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 4 cited

Simulating Atmospheric Processes in Earth System Models and Quantifying Uncertainties with Deep Learning Multi-Member and Stochastic Parameterizations

Gunnar Behrens, Tom Beucler, Fernando Iglesias-Suarez +5

Deep learning is a powerful tool to represent subgrid processes in climate models, but many application cases have so far used idealized settings and deterministic approaches. Here…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 2 cited

Stress-testing the coupled behavior of hybrid physics-machine learning climate simulations on an unseen, warmer climate

Jerry Lin, Mohamed Aziz Bhouri, Tom Beucler +2

Accurate and computationally-viable representations of clouds and turbulence are a long-standing challenge for climate model development. Traditional parameterizations that crudely…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 5 cited

Navigating the Noise: Bringing Clarity to ML Parameterization Design with O(100) Ensembles

Jerry Lin, Sungduk Yu, Liran Peng +6

Machine-learning (ML) parameterizations of subgrid processes (here of turbulence, convection, and radiation) may one day replace conventional parameterizations by emulating high-re…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 43 cited

Causally-informed deep learning to improve climate models and projections

Fernando Iglesias-Suarez, Pierre Gentine, Breixo Solino-Fernandez +4

Climate models are essential to understand and project climate change, yet long-standing biases and uncertainties in their projections remain. This is largely associated with the r…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 29 cited

Data-Driven Equation Discovery of a Cloud Cover Parameterization

Arthur Grundner, Tom Beucler, Pierre Gentine +1

A promising method for improving the representation of clouds in climate models, and hence climate projections, is to develop machine learning-based parameterizations using output…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 1 cited

Understanding Extreme Precipitation Changes through Unsupervised Machine Learning

Griffin Mooers, Tom Beucler, Mike Pritchard +1

Despite the importance of quantifying how the spatial patterns of extreme precipitation will change with warming, we lack tools to objectively analyze the storm-scale outputs of mo…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 4 cited

Comparing Storm Resolving Models and Climates via Unsupervised Machine Learning

Griffin Mooers, Mike Pritchard, Tom Beucler +5

Global Storm-Resolving Models (GSRMs) have gained widespread interest because of the unprecedented detail with which they resolve the global climate. However, it remains difficult…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 34 cited

Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction with a Variational Encoder Decoder to Understand Convective Processes in Climate Models

Gunnar Behrens, Tom Beucler, Pierre Gentine +3

Deep learning can accurately represent sub-grid-scale convective processes in climate models, learning from high resolution simulations. However, deep learning methods usually lack…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 67 cited

Deep Learning Based Cloud Cover Parameterization for ICON

Arthur Grundner, Tom Beucler, Pierre Gentine +3

A promising approach to improve cloud parameterizations within climate models and thus climate projections is to use deep learning in combination with training data from storm-reso…

physics.ao-ph2020★ 46 cited

Assessing the Potential of Deep Learning for Emulating Cloud Superparameterization in Climate Models with Real-Geography Boundary Conditions

Griffin Mooers, Mike Pritchard, Tom Beucler +4

We explore the potential of feed-forward deep neural networks (DNNs) for emulating cloud superparameterization in realistic geography, using offline fits to data from the Super Par…

physics.ao-ph2020

Generative Modeling for Atmospheric Convection

Griffin Mooers, Jens Tuyls, Stephan Mandt +2

While cloud-resolving models can explicitly simulate the details of small-scale storm formation and morphology, these details are often ignored by climate models for lack of comput…

physics.ao-ph2020★ 68 cited

Interpreting and Stabilizing Machine-learning Parametrizations of Convection

Noah D. Brenowitz, Tom Beucler, Michael Pritchard +1

Neural networks are a promising technique for parameterizing sub-grid-scale physics (e.g. moist atmospheric convection) in coarse-resolution climate models, but their lack of inter…

physics.ao-ph2020★ 8 cited

Quantifying Convective Aggregation using the Tropical Moist Margin's Length

Tom Beucler, David Leutwyler, Julia Windmiller

On small scales, the tropical atmosphere tends to be either moist or very dry. This defines two states that, on large scales, are separated by a sharp margin, well-identified by th…

physics.ao-ph2020

Towards Physically-consistent, Data-driven Models of Convection

Tom Beucler, Michael Pritchard, Pierre Gentine +1

Data-driven algorithms, in particular neural networks, can emulate the effect of sub-grid scale processes in coarse-resolution climate models if trained on high-resolution climate…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 18 cited

Convective dynamics and the response of precipitation extremes to warming in radiative-convective equilibrium

Tristan H. Abbott, Timothy W. Cronin, Tom Beucler

Tropical precipitation extremes are expected to strengthen with warming, but quantitative estimates remain uncertain because of a poor understanding of changes in convective dynami…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 11 cited

Comparing Convective Self-Aggregation in Idealized Models to Observed Moist Static Energy Variability near the Equator

Tom Beucler, Tristan Abbott, Timothy Cronin +1

Idealized convection-permitting simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) have become a popular tool for understanding the physical processes leading to horizontal vari…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 105 cited

Achieving Conservation of Energy in Neural Network Emulators for Climate Modeling

Tom Beucler, Stephan Rasp, Michael Pritchard +1

Artificial neural-networks have the potential to emulate cloud processes with higher accuracy than the semi-empirical emulators currently used in climate models. However, neural-ne…