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20142026
most citedOptimisation of an idealised ocean model, stochastic parameterisation of sub-grid eddies

43 citations · 271 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

physics.ao-ph2026

Multi-model ocean oxygen fields predicted by conditional diffusion models

Linus Vogt, Laure Zanna

Dissolved oxygen is important for the ocean's ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Yet, Earth System Models (ESMs) vary in their simulations of the present-day and future ocean ox…

physics.ao-ph2026

ClimateBench v2.0: Probabilistic Climate Model Benchmarking

Duncan Watson-Parris, Willa Tobin, Aytaç Paçal +32

We present ClimateBench v2, a standardized protocol for evaluating climate models on diagnostics expected to be informative for their skill in projecting mid-century regional tempe…

physics.ao-ph2026

Paleoclimate Boundary Conditions as an Out-of-Sample Test for the Forced Response of Ocean Climate Emulators

Adam Subel, Laure Zanna

AI weather emulators benefit from clear objectives and metrics, which have led to the rapid development of models that outperform traditional benchmarks. In contrast, long-term cli…

cs.CE2026

Samudra 2: Scaling Ocean Emulators across Resolutions

Yuan Yuan, Jesse Rusak, Alexander Merose +5

Ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) are essential to climate science but computationally expensive, limiting ensemble size and forcing scenarios. Neural emulators promise orde…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Towards bridging the gap between data-driven and theoretical turbulence closures in stratified flows

Laure Zanna, Pavel Perezhogin

Turbulence closure models are essential for solving the equations of motion in realistic systems, where fully resolving all relevant scales of motion is computationally infeasible.…

cs.AI2026

Agents' Last Exam

Yiyou Sun, Xinyang Han, Weichen Zhang +378

Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on a wide range of benchmarks, yet these gains have not translated into economically meaningful deployment across many professional d…

physics.ao-ph2026

Calibration of a neural network ocean closure for improved mean state and variability

Pavel Perezhogin, Alistair Adcroft, Laure Zanna

Global ocean models exhibit biases in the mean state and variability, particularly at coarse resolution, where mesoscale eddies are unresolved. To address these biases, parameteriz…

physics.ao-ph2026

FloeNet: A mass-conserving global sea ice emulator that generalizes across climates

William Gregory, Mitchell Bushuk, James Duncan +8

We introduce FloeNet, a machine-learning emulator trained on the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory global sea ice model, SIS2. FloeNet is a mass-conserving model, emulating 6-h…

nlin.CD2026

Physics constraints and response validation in discrete-time reduced-order modeling: from idealized turbulent systems to climate dynamics

Fabrizio Falasca, Laure Zanna

A central challenge across science and engineering is to build data-driven reduced-order models of turbulent dynamical systems that reproduce stationary statistics, predict respons…

physics.ao-ph2024

A fluctuation-dissipation theorem perspective on radiative responses to temperature perturbations

Fabrizio Falasca, Aurora Basinski-Ferris, Laure Zanna +1

Radiative forcing drives warming in the Earth system, leading to changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and associated radiative feedbacks. The link between changes in the top-…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 5 cited

Transfer Learning for Emulating Ocean Climate Variability across forcing

Surya Dheeshjith, Adam Subel, Shubham Gupta +4

With the success of machine learning (ML) applied to climate reaching further every day, emulators have begun to show promise not only for weather but for multi-year time scales in…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 4 cited

Building Ocean Climate Emulators

Adam Subel, Laure Zanna

The current explosion in machine learning for climate has led to skilled, computationally cheap emulators for the atmosphere. However, the research for ocean emulators remains nasc…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 2 cited

A Data-Driven Approach for Parameterizing Submesoscale Vertical Buoyancy Fluxes in the Ocean Mixed Layer

Abigail Bodner, Dhruv Balwada, Laure Zanna

Parameterizations of O(1-10)km submesoscale flows in General Circulation Models (GCMs) represent the effects of unresolved vertical buoyancy fluxes in the ocean mixed layer. These…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 14 cited

A stable implementation of a data-driven scale-aware mesoscale parameterization

Pavel Perezhogin, Cheng Zhang, Alistair Adcroft +2

Ocean mesoscale eddies are often poorly represented in climate models, and therefore, their effects on the large scale circulation must be parameterized. Traditional parameterizati…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 23 cited

Machine learning for online sea ice bias correction within global ice-ocean simulations

William Gregory, Mitchell Bushuk, Yongfei Zhang +2

In this study we perform online sea ice bias correction within a GFDL global ice-ocean model. For this, we use a convolutional neural network (CNN) which was developed in a previou…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Reliable coarse-grained turbulent simulations through combined offline learning and neural emulation

Christian Pedersen, Laure Zanna, Joan Bruna +1

Integration of machine learning (ML) models of unresolved dynamics into numerical simulations of fluid dynamics has been demonstrated to improve the accuracy of coarse resolution s…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 2 cited

Background Pycnocline depth constrains Future Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency

Emily Newsom, Laure Zanna, Jonathan Gregory

The Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency (OHUE) quantifies the ocean's ability to mitigate surface warming through deep heat sequestration. Despite its importance, the main controls on OHU…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 12 cited

A data-driven framework for dimensionality reduction and causal inference in climate fields

Fabrizio Falasca, Pavel Perezhogin, Laure Zanna

We propose a data-driven framework to simplify the description of spatiotemporal climate variability into few entities and their causal linkages. Given a high-dimensional climate f…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 36 cited

Parameterizing Vertical Mixing Coefficients in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer using Neural Networks

Aakash Sane, Brandon G. Reichl, Alistair Adcroft +1

Vertical mixing parameterizations in ocean models are formulated on the basis of the physical principles that govern turbulent mixing. However, many parameterizations include ad ho…

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.data-an2023★ 1 cited

Discovering Causal Relations and Equations from Data

Gustau Camps-Valls, Andreas Gerhardus, Urmi Ninad +7

Physics is a field of science that has traditionally used the scientific method to answer questions about why natural phenomena occur and to make testable models that explain the p…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 40 cited

Deep learning of systematic sea ice model errors from data assimilation increments

William Gregory, Mitchell Bushuk, Alistair Adcroft +2

Data assimilation is often viewed as a framework for correcting short-term error growth in dynamical climate model forecasts. When viewed on the time scales of climate however, the…

physics.ao-ph2023★ 4 cited

Implementation and Evaluation of a Machine Learned Mesoscale Eddy Parameterization into a Numerical Ocean Circulation Model

Cheng Zhang, Pavel Perezhogin, Cem Gultekin +3

We address the question of how to use a machine learned parameterization in a general circulation model, and assess its performance both computationally and physically. We take one…

physics.ao-ph2023

Data-driven multiscale modeling for correcting dynamical systems

Karl Otness, Laure Zanna, Joan Bruna

We propose a multiscale approach for predicting quantities in dynamical systems which is explicitly structured to extract information in both fine-to-coarse and coarse-to-fine dire…