Big Data in Earth system science and progress towards a digital twin

X Li, M Feng, Y Ran, Y Su, F Liu, C Huang… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of a digital twin of Earth envisages the convergence of Big Earth Data with
physics-based models in an interactive computational framework that enables monitoring …

Intelligent metasurfaces: control, communication and computing

L Li, H Zhao, C Liu, L Li, TJ Cui - elight, 2022 - Springer
Controlling electromagnetic waves and information simultaneously by information
metasurfaces is of central importance in modern society. Intelligent metasurfaces are smart …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate medium-range global weather forecasting with 3D neural networks

K Bi, L **e, H Zhang, X Chen, X Gu, Q Tian - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Weather forecasting is important for science and society. At present, the most accurate
forecast system is the numerical weather prediction (NWP) method, which represents …

Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

R Lam, A Sanchez-Gonzalez, M Willson, P Wirnsberger… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Global medium-range weather forecasting is critical to decision-making across many social
and economic domains. Traditional numerical weather prediction uses increased compute …

Skilful nowcasting of extreme precipitation with NowcastNet

Y Zhang, M Long, K Chen, L **ng, R **, MI Jordan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme precipitation is a considerable contributor to meteorological disasters and there is a
great need to mitigate its socioeconomic effects through skilful nowcasting that has high …

Climax: A foundation model for weather and climate

T Nguyen, J Brandstetter, A Kapoor, JK Gupta… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Most state-of-the-art approaches for weather and climate modeling are based on physics-
informed numerical models of the atmosphere. These approaches aim to model the non …

Self-supervised contrastive pre-training for time series via time-frequency consistency

X Zhang, Z Zhao, T Tsiligkaridis… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Pre-training on time series poses a unique challenge due to the potential mismatch between
pre-training and target domains, such as shifts in temporal dynamics, fast-evolving trends …

A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth

N Lang, W Jetz, K Schindler, JD Wegner - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
The worldwide variation in vegetation height is fundamental to the global carbon cycle and
central to the functioning of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Geospatially explicit and …

Machine learning with data assimilation and uncertainty quantification for dynamical systems: a review

S Cheng, C Quilodrán-Casas, S Ouala… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data assimilation (DA) and uncertainty quantification (UQ) are extensively used in analysing
and reducing error propagation in high-dimensional spatial-temporal dynamics. Typical …

Earthformer: Exploring space-time transformers for earth system forecasting

Z Gao, X Shi, H Wang, Y Zhu… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Conventionally, Earth system (eg, weather and climate) forecasting relies on numerical
simulation with complex physical models and hence is both expensive in computation and …