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20232026
most citedGenerative ensemble deep learning severe weather prediction from a deterministic convection-allowing model

10 citations · 36 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.ao-ph2026

Evaluating LLMs for Translating Legacy Fortran Atmospheric Physics to GPU-Accelerated JAX

Iris Linck, John Dennis, John Schreck +2

Legacy Fortran physics packages in atmospheric models such as CESM, WRF, and E3SM pose a barrier to GPU modernization, while manual porting requires accelerator-programming experti…

physics.ao-ph2026

Understanding Perturbed Parameter Ensemble Sensitivities Using A Contrastive Learning Approach

Da Fan, David John Gagne, Gregory S Elsaesser +5

Perturbed parameter ensembles (PPEs) reveal how physics parameters affect climate simulations, but interpreting parameter sensitivities across multivariate, spatially structured ou…

physics.ao-ph2026

Conditional Tropical Cyclogenesis Rates via Rare-Event Sampling in a Neural Weather Emulator

John S. Schreck, William Chapman, Charlie Becker +1

We couple Forward Flux Sampling (FFS), a non-equilibrium rare-event technique from statistical mechanics, to a neural weather emulator (SDL-WXFormer, 1° grid spacing) to estimate c…

physics.data-an2026

Toward a Scientific Discovery Engine for Weather and Climate Data: A Visual Analytics Workbench for Embedding-Based Exploration

Nihanth W. Cherukuru, Matt Rehme, Kirsten J. Mayer +4

Earth system science is producing increasingly large, high-dimensional datasets from both physics-based and AI-driven models. While embedding-based representations make these data…

physics.ao-ph2026

AI-Based Regional Emulation for Kilometer-Scale Dynamical Downscaling

Yingkai Sha, Tracy Hertneky, Ethan Gutmann +6

An AI-based Limited-Area Model (LAM) is developed for dynamical downscaling over the Southern Great Plains and the southeastern United States, with strong generalization abilities…

cs.LG2025

Controllable Probabilistic Forecasting with Stochastic Decomposition Layers

John S. Schreck, William E. Chapman, Charlie Becker +6

AI weather prediction ensembles with latent noise injection and optimized with the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) have produced both accurate and well-calibrated predic…

physics.ao-ph2025

Winter Precipitation Type Diagnosis and Uncertainty Quantification with a Physically Consistent Machine Learning Method

Charlie Becker, David John Gagne, Julie Demuth +8

Accurately forecasting winter precipitation type and its transitions is critical for high-impact decision making. However, existing methods struggle in thermodynamically ambiguous…

physics.ao-ph2025

Bayesian Deep Learning for Convective Initiation Nowcasting Uncertainty Estimation

Da Fan, David John Gagne, Steven J. Greybush +3

This study evaluated the probability and uncertainty forecasts of five recently proposed Bayesian deep learning methods relative to a deterministic residual neural network (ResNet)…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcement Learning (RL) Meets Urban Climate Modeling: Investigating the Efficacy and Impacts of RL-Based HVAC Control

Junjie Yu, John S. Schreck, David John Gagne +7

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control has emerged as a promising technology for reducing building energy consumption while mai…

physics.ao-ph2025★ 3 cited

Improving Medium Range Severe Weather Prediction through Transformer Post-processing of AI Weather Forecasts

Zhanxiang Hua, Ryan Sobash, David John Gagne +2

Improving the skill of medium-range (3-8 day) severe weather prediction is crucial for mitigating societal impacts. This study introduces a novel approach leveraging decoder-only t…

physics.ao-ph2025

CAMulator: Fast Emulation of the Community Atmosphere Model

William E. Chapman, John S. Schreck, Yingkai Sha +5

We introduce CAMulator version 1, an auto-regressive machine-learned (ML) emulator of the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) that simulates the next atmospheric state give…

physics.ao-ph2025

Data-Driven Probabilistic Air-Sea Flux Parameterization

Jiarong Wu, Pavel Perezhogin, David John Gagne +4

Accurately quantifying air-sea fluxes is important for understanding air-sea interactions and improving coupled weather and climate systems. This study introduces a probabilistic f…

physics.ao-ph2025

Investigating the use of terrain-following coordinates in AI-driven precipitation forecasts

Yingkai Sha, John S. Schreck, William Chapman +1

Artificial Intelligence (AI) weather prediction (AIWP) models often produce ``blurry'' precipitation forecasts. This study presents a novel solution to tackle this problem -- integ…

cs.LG2025★ 9 cited

Uncertainty Quantification of Wind Gust Predictions in the Northeast United States: An Evidential Neural Network and Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach

Israt Jahan, John S. Schreck, David John Gagne +2

Machine learning algorithms have shown promise in reducing bias in wind gust predictions, while still underpredicting high gusts. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) supports this issu…

physics.ao-ph2025★ 1 cited

Improving AI weather prediction models using global mass and energy conservation schemes

Yingkai Sha, John S. Schreck, William Chapman +1

Artificial Intelligence (AI) weather prediction (AIWP) models are powerful tools for medium-range forecasts but often lack physical consistency, leading to outputs that violate con…

cs.AI2024★ 3 cited

Community Research Earth Digital Intelligence Twin (CREDIT)

John Schreck, Yingkai Sha, William Chapman +7

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) for numerical weather prediction (NWP) have significantly transformed atmospheric modeling. AI NWP models outperform traditional…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 3 cited

Improving ensemble extreme precipitation forecasts using generative artificial intelligence

Yingkai Sha, Ryan A. Sobash, David John Gagne

An ensemble post-processing method is developed to improve the probabilistic forecasts of extreme precipitation events across the conterminous United States (CONUS). The method com…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 7 cited

Physically Explainable Deep Learning for Convective Initiation Nowcasting Using GOES-16 Satellite Observations

Da Fan, Steven J. Greybush, David John Gagne +1

Convection initiation (CI) nowcasting remains a challenging problem for both numerical weather prediction models and existing nowcasting algorithms. In this study, object-based pro…

cs.LG2023★ 10 cited

Generative ensemble deep learning severe weather prediction from a deterministic convection-allowing model

Yingkai Sha, Ryan A. Sobash, David John Gagne

An ensemble post-processing method is developed for the probabilistic prediction of severe weather (tornadoes, hail, and wind gusts) over the conterminous United States (CONUS). Th…