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20222026
most citedACE: A fast, skillful learned global atmospheric model for climate prediction

29 citations · 144 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

physics.ao-ph2026

Extreme events and statistics in an AI emulator of a global storm-resolving model

Anna Kwa, W. Andre Perkins, Troy Arcomano +7

We present HiRO-ACEv2 (High Resolution Output Ai2 Climate Emulator), a two-stage framework for AI emulation of the 3~km resolution X-SHiELD global storm-resolving model (GSRM), and…

cs.CE2026

Domain-Adaptive Data Assimilation for Global AI Weather Forecasting

Minseok Seo, Noah Brenowitz, Doyi Kim +2

AI weather forecasting models are commonly trained on the ERA5 reanalysis, which is unavailable in real time. Operational deployment therefore relies on initial conditions produced…

physics.ao-ph2026★ 2 cited

Scaling Storm-Resolving Atmospheric AI Simulation to the Entire Planet

Zeyuan Hu, Akshay Subramaniam, Noel Keen +9

Kilometer-scale convection shapes precipitation extremes, tropical organization, and cloud feedbacks, but most global atmospheric models approximate these processes at 25-100 km re…

physics.ao-ph2026

Towards accurate extreme event likelihoods from diffusion model climate emulators

Peter Manshausen, Noah Brenowitz, Julius Berner +2

ML climate model emulators are useful for scenario planning and adaptation, allowing for cost-efficient experimentation. Recently, the diffusion model Climate in a Bottle (cBottle)…

physics.ao-ph2026★ 1 cited

AIMIP Phase 1: systematic evaluations of AI weather and climate models

Brian Henn, Christopher S. Bretherton, Nikolay Koldunov +18

We present the AI weather and climate model intercomparison project (AIMIP), phase 1. Drawing from the rich tradition of intercomparisons in climate model development, we specify a…

cs.LG2026

Demystifying Data-Driven Probabilistic Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Jean Kossaifi, Nikola Kovachki, Morteza Mardani +15

The recent revolution in data-driven methods for weather forecasting has lead to a fragmented landscape of complex, bespoke architectures and training strategies, obscuring the fun…

physics.ao-ph2026

Learning Accurate Storm-Scale Evolution from Observations

Jaideep Pathak, Mohammad Shoaib Abbas, Peter Harrington +10

Accurate short-term prediction of clouds and precipitation is critical for severe weather warnings, aviation safety, and renewable energy operations. Forecasts at this timescale ar…

cs.LG2025

Long-Range Distillation: Distilling 10,000 Years of Simulated Climate into Long Timestep AI Weather Models

Scott A. Martin, Noah Brenowitz, Dale Durran +1

Accurate long-range weather forecasting remains a major challenge for AI models, both because errors accumulate over autoregressive rollouts and because reanalysis training dataset…

astro-ph.IM2025

cuHPX: GPU-Accelerated Differentiable Spherical Harmonic Transforms on HEALPix Grids

Xiaopo Cheng, Akshay Subramaniam, Shixun Wu +1

HEALPix (Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization) is a widely adopted spherical grid system in astrophysics, cosmology, and Earth sciences. Its equal-area, iso-latitude st…

cs.LG2025

Elucidated Rolling Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Forecasting of Complex Dynamics

Salva Rühling Cachay, Miika Aittala, Karsten Kreis +4

Diffusion models are a powerful tool for probabilistic forecasting, yet most applications in high-dimensional complex systems predict future states individually. This approach stru…

physics.ao-ph2025★ 1 cited

Climate in a Bottle: Towards a Generative Foundation Model for the Kilometer-Scale Global Atmosphere

Noah D. Brenowitz, Tao Ge, Akshay Subramaniam +7

Climate modeling is reaching unprecedented resolution, producing petabytes of data. AI climate model emulators offer a path to computationally cheap analysis, enabling new scientif…

cs.CV2024

Stochastic Flow Matching for Resolving Small-Scale Physics

Stathi Fotiadis, Noah Brenowitz, Tomas Geffner +4

Conditioning diffusion and flow models have proven effective for super-resolving small-scale details in natural images.However, in physical sciences such as weather, super-resolvin…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 7 cited

Kilometer-Scale Convection Allowing Model Emulation using Generative Diffusion Modeling

Jaideep Pathak, Yair Cohen, Piyush Garg +8

Storm-scale convection-allowing models (CAMs) are an important tool for predicting the evolution of thunderstorms and mesoscale convective systems that result in damaging extreme w…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 4 cited

Huge Ensembles Part I: Design of Ensemble Weather Forecasts using Spherical Fourier Neural Operators

Ankur Mahesh, William Collins, Boris Bonev +13

Studying low-likelihood high-impact extreme weather events in a warming world is a significant and challenging task for current ensemble forecasting systems. While these systems pr…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Huge Ensembles Part II: Properties of a Huge Ensemble of Hindcasts Generated with Spherical Fourier Neural Operators

Ankur Mahesh, William Collins, Boris Bonev +12

In Part I, we created an ensemble based on Spherical Fourier Neural Operators. As initial condition perturbations, we used bred vectors, and as model perturbations, we used multipl…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 6 cited

Stable Machine-Learning Parameterization of Subgrid Processes in a Comprehensive Atmospheric Model Learned From Embedded Convection-Permitting Simulations

Zeyuan Hu, Akshay Subramaniam, Zhiming Kuang +6

Modern climate projections often suffer from inadequate spatial and temporal resolution due to computational limitations, resulting in inaccurate representations of sub-grid proces…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 11 cited

Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics in a Machine Learning Earth System Model

Chenggong Wang, Michael S. Pritchard, Noah Brenowitz +5

Seasonal climate forecasts are socioeconomically important for managing the impacts of extreme weather events and for planning in sectors like agriculture and energy. Climate predi…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Generative Data Assimilation of Sparse Weather Station Observations at Kilometer Scales

Peter Manshausen, Yair Cohen, Peter Harrington +7

Data assimilation of observational data into full atmospheric states is essential for weather forecast model initialization. Recently, methods for deep generative data assimilation…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 1 cited

DiffObs: Generative Diffusion for Global Forecasting of Satellite Observations

Jason Stock, Jaideep Pathak, Yair Cohen +5

This work presents an autoregressive generative diffusion model (DiffObs) to predict the global evolution of daily precipitation, trained on a satellite observational product, and…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 24 cited

A Practical Probabilistic Benchmark for AI Weather Models

Noah D. Brenowitz, Yair Cohen, Jaideep Pathak +6

Since the weather is chaotic, forecasts aim to predict the distribution of future states rather than make a single prediction. Recently, multiple data driven weather models have em…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 29 cited

ACE: A fast, skillful learned global atmospheric model for climate prediction

Oliver Watt-Meyer, Gideon Dresdner, Jeremy McGibbon +9

Existing ML-based atmospheric models are not suitable for climate prediction, which requires long-term stability and physical consistency. We present ACE (AI2 Climate Emulator), a…

cs.LG2023★ 16 cited

Residual Corrective Diffusion Modeling for Km-scale Atmospheric Downscaling

Morteza Mardani, Noah Brenowitz, Yair Cohen +10

The state of the art for physical hazard prediction from weather and climate requires expensive km-scale numerical simulations driven by coarser resolution global inputs. Here, a g…

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-ph2022★ 2 cited

Improving the predictions of ML-corrected climate models with novelty detection

Clayton Sanford, Anna Kwa, Oliver Watt-Meyer +4

While previous works have shown that machine learning (ML) can improve the prediction accuracy of coarse-grid climate models, these ML-augmented methods are more vulnerable to irre…