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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…

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…