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20202025
most citedNightVision: Generating Nighttime Satellite Imagery from Infra-Red Observations

8 citations · 39 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.LG2025

On Global Applicability and Location Transferability of Generative Deep Learning Models for Precipitation Downscaling

Paula Harder, Christian Lessig, Matthew Chantry +2

Deep learning offers promising capabilities for the statistical downscaling of climate and weather forecasts, with generative approaches showing particular success in capturing fin…

cs.CV2025

RainShift: A Benchmark for Precipitation Downscaling Across Geographies

Paula Harder, Luca Schmidt, Francis Pelletier +5

Earth System Models (ESM) are our main tool for projecting the impacts of climate change. However, running these models at sufficient resolution for local-scale risk-assessments is…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Evaluating the transferability potential of deep learning models for climate downscaling

Ayush Prasad, Paula Harder, Qidong Yang +4

Climate downscaling, the process of generating high-resolution climate data from low-resolution simulations, is essential for understanding and adapting to climate change at region…

cs.AI2024

Climate Variable Downscaling with Conditional Normalizing Flows

Christina Winkler, Paula Harder, David Rolnick

Predictions of global climate models typically operate on coarse spatial scales due to the large computational costs of climate simulations. This has led to a considerable interest…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 3 cited

Multi-variable Hard Physical Constraints for Climate Model Downscaling

Jose González-Abad, Álex Hernández-García, Paula Harder +2

Global Climate Models (GCMs) are the primary tool to simulate climate evolution and assess the impacts of climate change. However, they often operate at a coarse spatial resolution…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Fourier Neural Operators for Arbitrary Resolution Climate Data Downscaling

Qidong Yang, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Paula Harder +5

Climate simulations are essential in guiding our understanding of climate change and responding to its effects. However, it is computationally expensive to resolve complex climate…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 3 cited

Pyrocast: a Machine Learning Pipeline to Forecast Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) Clouds

Kenza Tazi, Emiliano Díaz Salas-Porras, Ashwin Braude +5

Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds are storm clouds generated by extreme wildfires. PyroCbs are associated with unpredictable, and therefore dangerous, wildfire spread. They can also…

stat.ML2022★ 3 cited

Identifying the Causes of Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb)

Emiliano Díaz Salas-Porras, Kenza Tazi, Ashwin Braude +5

A first causal discovery analysis from observational data of pyroCb (storm clouds generated from extreme wildfires) is presented. Invariant Causal Prediction was used to develop to…

math.NA2022

Abstract error analysis for Cahn--Hilliard type equations with dynamic boundary conditions

Paula Harder

This work addresses the problem of solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation numerically. For that we introduce an abstract formulation for Cahn-Hilliard type equations with dynamic bound…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 7 cited

Hard-Constrained Deep Learning for Climate Downscaling

Paula Harder, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Venkatesh Ramesh +5

The availability of reliable, high-resolution climate and weather data is important to inform long-term decisions on climate adaptation and mitigation and to guide rapid responses…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Physics-Informed Learning of Aerosol Microphysics

Paula Harder, Duncan Watson-Parris, Philip Stier +3

Aerosol particles play an important role in the climate system by absorbing and scattering radiation and influencing cloud properties. They are also one of the biggest sources of u…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Detecting AutoAttack Perturbations in the Frequency Domain

Peter Lorenz, Paula Harder, Dominik Strassel +2

Recently, adversarial attacks on image classification networks by the AutoAttack (Croce and Hein, 2020b) framework have drawn a lot of attention. While AutoAttack has shown a very…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Emulating Aerosol Microphysics with Machine Learning

Paula Harder, Duncan Watson-Parris, Dominik Strassel +3

Aerosol particles play an important role in the climate system by absorbing and scattering radiation and influencing cloud properties. They are also one of the biggest sources of u…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

SpectralDefense: Detecting Adversarial Attacks on CNNs in the Fourier Domain

Paula Harder, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Margret Keuper +1

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many computer vision and image analysis tasks, they remain vulnerable against so-called adversarial attacks: Small, c…

cs.CV2020★ 8 cited

NightVision: Generating Nighttime Satellite Imagery from Infra-Red Observations

Paula Harder, William Jones, Redouane Lguensat +8

The recent explosion in applications of machine learning to satellite imagery often rely on visible images and therefore suffer from a lack of data during the night. The gap can be…

math.NA2020

Error estimates for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions

Paula Harder, Balázs Kovács

A proof of convergence is given for bulk--surface finite element semi-discretisation of the Cahn--Hilliard equation with Cahn--Hilliard-type dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth…