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

29 citations · 102 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.ao-ph2026

Anomalous Diffusion of Tropical Cyclones Observed in Huge Ensembles of Hindcasts

Abdoul R. Zeba, William D. Collins, Ankur Mahesh +5

We examine whether tropical cyclones (TCs) obey ordinary Brownian or anomalous diffusion using a huge ensemble (HENS) of hindcasts for summer 2023. Anomalous diffusion has been inf…

cs.DC2026

ShardTensor: Domain Parallelism for Scientific Machine Learning

Corey Adams, Peter Harrington, Akshay Subramaniam +4

Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) faces unique challenges for extreme-resolution data, with mitigations that often fail to scale or degrade the accuracy of trained models. While…

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)…

stat.AP2026

Surface temperature extremes produced by huge machine learning hindcasts of summer 2023

Mark Risser, Ankur Mahesh, William D. Collins +6

The summer of 2023 brought record-breaking heat extremes across the globe. In this work, we investigate how much worse these extremes might have become, given identical large-scale…

physics.ao-ph2026

Examining Fast Radiatively Driven Responses Using Machine-Learning Weather Emulators

Ankur Mahesh, William D. Collins, Travis A. O'Brien +10

The response of the climate system to increased greenhouse gases and other radiative perturbations is governed by a combination of fast and slow feedbacks. Slow feedbacks are typic…

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…

physics.ao-ph2026

HealDA: Highlighting the importance of initial errors in end-to-end AI weather forecasts

Aayush Gupta, Akshay Subramaniam, Michael S. Pritchard +6

AI weather models now rival leading numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems in medium-range skill. However, almost all still rely on NWP data assimilation (DA) to provide initia…

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…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

FourCastNet 3: A geometric approach to probabilistic machine-learning weather forecasting at scale

Boris Bonev, Thorsten Kurth, Ankur Mahesh +7

FourCastNet 3 advances global weather modeling by implementing a scalable, geometric machine learning (ML) approach to probabilistic ensemble forecasting. The approach is designed…

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★ 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…