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

1.1k citations · 1.9k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.ao-ph2026

DLESyM-Ocean: A Deep Learning Probabilistic Global Model for Simulating Present-Day Upper Ocean and Sea Ice

Zachary I Espinosa, Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay, William Yik +6

While AI has shown remarkable promise in atmospheric and meteorological forecasting, accurately simulating other components of the Earth system with AI remains an active frontier.…

cs.LG2023★ 19 cited

ClimSim-Online: A Large Multi-scale Dataset and Framework for Hybrid ML-physics Climate Emulation

Sungduk Yu, Zeyuan Hu, Akshay Subramaniam +44

Modern climate projections lack adequate spatial and temporal resolution due to computational constraints, leading to inaccuracies in representing critical processes like thunderst…

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

Improving stratocumulus cloud amounts in a 200-m resolution multi-scale modeling framework through tuning of its interior physics

Liran Peng, Peter N. Blossey, Walter M. Hannah +4

High-Resolution Multi-scale Modeling Frameworks (HR) -- global climate models that embed separate, convection-resolving models with high enough resolution to resolve boundary layer…

physics.ao-ph2023

Using Neural Networks to Learn the Jet Stream Forced Response from Natural Variability

Charlotte Connolly, Elizabeth A. Barnes, Pedram Hassanzadeh +1

Two distinct features of anthropogenic climate change, warming in the tropical upper troposphere and warming at the Arctic surface, have competing effects on the mid-latitude jet s…

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…

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.ed-ph2021★ 3 cited

Proposals for High School Teaching of Quantum Physics

Enzo Bonacci

In the Italian education system, secondary students (ages 14-19) face the foundations of quantum physics during the final term of scientific high school (pre-university year). The…

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

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.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★ 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…

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…