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20242026
most citedAIFS -- ECMWF's data-driven forecasting system

75 citations · 99 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.ao-ph2026

Global reanalysis from observations alone with machine learning

Peter Lean, Ewan Pinnington, Patrick Laloyaux +9

Earth system reanalysis datasets are foundational for weather and climate research and provide the gridded training data used by most machine learning weather prediction systems. H…

physics.ao-ph2026

AIFS-SUBS: Extending Data-Driven Forecasting to Sub-Seasonal Timescales

Jakob Schloer, Steffen Tietsche, Christopher D. Roberts +6

Data-driven models now rival numerical weather prediction in the medium range, but extending them to sub-seasonal lead times raises challenges absent at shorter horizons. Errors ac…

physics.ao-ph2026

AIFS-DOP: End-to-End Medium-Range Weather Prediction from Observations Alone with Machine Learning

Ewan Pinnington, Peter Lean, Mihai Alexe +8

We introduce the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System for Direct Observation Prediction (AIFS-DOP). AIFS-DOP is trained on a 40-year harmonized dataset of gridded observation…

econ.GN2025

Optimal Carbon Prices in an Unequal World: The Role of Regional Welfare Weights

Simon F. Lang

How should nations price carbon? This paper examines how the treatment of global inequality, captured by regional welfare weights, affects optimal carbon prices. I develop theory t…

physics.ao-ph2025★ 1 cited

High-Resolution Probabilistic Data-Driven Weather Modeling with a Stretched-Grid

Even Marius Nordhagen, Håvard Homleid Haugen, Magnus Sikora Ingstad +9

We present a probabilistic data-driven weather model providing ensembles of high spatial resolution realizations of 87 variables at arbitrary ensemble size and forecast length. The…

physics.ao-ph2025

Using data assimilation tools to dissect GraphDOP

Patrick Laloyaux, Mihai Alexe, Eulalie Boucher +5

The Data Assimilation (DA) community has been developing various diagnostics to understand the importance of the observing system in accurately forecasting the weather. They usuall…

physics.ao-ph2025

Learning Coupled Earth System Dynamics with GraphDOP

Eulalie Boucher, Mihai Alexe, Peter Lean +7

Interactions between different components of the Earth System (e.g. ocean, atmosphere, land and cryosphere) are a crucial driver of global weather patterns. Modern Numerical Weathe…

physics.ao-ph2025★ 1 cited

An update to ECMWF's machine-learned weather forecast model AIFS

Gabriel Moldovan, Ewan Pinnington, Ana Prieto Nemesio +18

We present an update to ECMWF's machine-learned weather forecasting model AIFS Single with several key improvements. The model now incorporates physical consistency constraints thr…

physics.ao-ph2025

Learning from nature: insights into GraphDOP's representations of the Earth System

Peter Lean, Mihai Alexe, Eulalie Boucher +5

Through a series of experiments, we provide evidence that the GraphDOP model - trained solely on meteorological observations, using no prior knowledge - develops internal represent…

physics.ao-ph2025

A multi-scale loss formulation for learning a probabilistic model with proper score optimisation

Simon Lang, Martin Leutbecher, Pedro Maciel

We assess the impact of a multi-scale loss formulation for training probabilistic machine-learned weather forecasting models. The multi-scale loss is tested in AIFS-CRPS, a machine…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 9 cited

AIFS-CRPS: Ensemble forecasting using a model trained with a loss function based on the Continuous Ranked Probability Score

Simon Lang, Mihai Alexe, Mariana C. A. Clare +15

Over the last three decades, ensemble forecasts have become an integral part of forecasting the weather. They provide users with more complete information than single forecasts as…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 3 cited

GraphDOP: Towards skilful data-driven medium-range weather forecasts learnt and initialised directly from observations

Mihai Alexe, Eulalie Boucher, Peter Lean +11

We introduce GraphDOP, a new data-driven, end-to-end forecast system developed at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) that is trained and initialised exc…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 5 cited

Regional data-driven weather modeling with a global stretched-grid

Thomas Nils Nipen, Håvard Homleid Haugen, Magnus Sikora Ingstad +11

A data-driven model (DDM) suitable for regional weather forecasting applications is presented. The model extends the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System by introducing a str…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 5 cited

Data driven weather forecasts trained and initialised directly from observations

Anthony McNally, Christian Lessig, Peter Lean +11

Skilful Machine Learned weather forecasts have challenged our approach to numerical weather prediction, demonstrating competitive performance compared to traditional physics-based…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 75 cited

AIFS -- ECMWF's data-driven forecasting system

Simon Lang, Mihai Alexe, Matthew Chantry +13

Machine learning-based weather forecasting models have quickly emerged as a promising methodology for accurate medium-range global weather forecasting. Here, we introduce the Artif…