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20182026
most citedDeep learning to represent sub-grid processes in climate models

1.1k citations · 3.5k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.LG2026

WeatherNext 3: Increasing resolution and performance of global weather models with raw observations

Stephan Rasp, Boris Babenko, Dominic Masters +22

State-of-the-art AI weather models have shown impressive medium-range forecast skill and computational efficiency, but suffer two key shortcomings: their forecasts have lower spati…

cs.LG2025

An Operational Deep Learning System for Satellite-Based High-Resolution Global Nowcasting

Shreya Agrawal, Mohammed Alewi Hassen, Emmanuel Asiedu Brempong +16

Precipitation nowcasting, which predicts rainfall up to a few hours ahead, is a critical tool for vulnerable communities in the Global South frequently exposed to intense, rapidly…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 408 cited

Neural General Circulation Models for Weather and Climate

Dmitrii Kochkov, Janni Yuval, Ian Langmore +13

General circulation models (GCMs) are the foundation of weather and climate prediction. GCMs are physics-based simulators which combine a numerical solver for large-scale dynamics…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 29 cited

WeatherBench 2: A benchmark for the next generation of data-driven global weather models

Stephan Rasp, Stephan Hoyer, Alexander Merose +15

WeatherBench 2 is an update to the global, medium-range (1-14 day) weather forecasting benchmark proposed by Rasp et al. (2020), designed with the aim to accelerate progress in dat…

physics.ao-ph2022

The role of internal variability in global climate projections of extreme events

Mackenzie L. Blanusa, Carla J. López-Zurita, Stephan Rasp

Climate projection uncertainty can be partitioned into model uncertainty, scenario uncertainty and internal variability. Here, we investigate the different sources of uncertainty i…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 23 cited

WeatherBench Probability: A benchmark dataset for probabilistic medium-range weather forecasting along with deep learning baseline models

Sagar Garg, Stephan Rasp, Nils Thuerey

WeatherBench is a benchmark dataset for medium-range weather forecasting of geopotential, temperature and precipitation, consisting of preprocessed data, predefined evaluation metr…

stat.ML2022★ 39 cited

Increasing the accuracy and resolution of precipitation forecasts using deep generative models

Ilan Price, Stephan Rasp

Accurately forecasting extreme rainfall is notoriously difficult, but is also ever more crucial for society as climate change increases the frequency of such extremes. Global numer…

cs.LG2021★ 28 cited

Climate-Invariant Machine Learning

Tom Beucler, Pierre Gentine, Janni Yuval +10

Projecting climate change is a generalization problem: we extrapolate the recent past using physical models across past, present, and future climates. Current climate models requir…

physics.ao-ph2020★ 167 cited

Data-driven medium-range weather prediction with a Resnet pretrained on climate simulations: A new model for WeatherBench

Stephan Rasp, Nils Thuerey

Numerical weather prediction has traditionally been based on physical models of the atmosphere. Recently, however, the rise of deep learning has created increased interest in purel…

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-ph2020★ 506 cited

WeatherBench: A benchmark dataset for data-driven weather forecasting

Stephan Rasp, Peter D. Dueben, Sebastian Scher +3

Data-driven approaches, most prominently deep learning, have become powerful tools for prediction in many domains. A natural question to ask is whether data-driven methods could al…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 459 cited

Enforcing Analytic Constraints in Neural-Networks Emulating Physical Systems

Tom Beucler, Michael Pritchard, Stephan Rasp +3

Neural networks can emulate nonlinear physical systems with high accuracy, yet they may produce physically-inconsistent results when violating fundamental constraints. Here, we int…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 31 cited

Coupled online learning as a way to tackle instabilities and biases in neural network parameterizations

Stephan Rasp

Over the last couple of years, machine learning parameterizations have emerged as a potential way to improve the representation of sub-grid processes in Earth System Models (ESMs).…

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…

physics.ao-ph2019

Combining crowd-sourcing and deep learning to explore the meso-scale organization of shallow convection

Stephan Rasp, Hauke Schulz, Sandrine Bony +1

Humans excel at detecting interesting patterns in images, for example those taken from satellites. This kind of anecdotal evidence can lead to the discovery of new phenomena. Howev…

physics.ao-ph2018★ 1.1k cited

Deep learning to represent sub-grid processes in climate models

Stephan Rasp, Michael S. Pritchard, Pierre Gentine

The representation of nonlinear sub-grid processes, especially clouds, has been a major source of uncertainty in climate models for decades. Cloud-resolving models better represent…

stat.ML2018★ 536 cited

Neural networks for post-processing ensemble weather forecasts

Stephan Rasp, Sebastian Lerch

Ensemble weather predictions require statistical post-processing of systematic errors to obtain reliable and accurate probabilistic forecasts. Traditionally, this is accomplished w…