The digital revolution of Earth-system science

P Bauer, PD Dueben, T Hoefler, T Quintino… - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Computational science is crucial for delivering reliable weather and climate predictions.
However, despite decades of high-performance computing experience, there is serious …

[HTML][HTML] Opinion: Optimizing climate models with process knowledge, resolution, and artificial intelligence

T Schneider, LR Leung, RCJ Wills - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Accelerated progress in climate modeling is urgently needed for proactive and effective
climate change adaptation. The central challenge lies in accurately representing processes …

Fourcastnet: Accelerating global high-resolution weather forecasting using adaptive fourier neural operators

T Kurth, S Subramanian, P Harrington… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Extreme weather amplified by climate change is causing increasingly devastating impacts
across the globe. The current use of physics-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) …

Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction

T Schneider, S Behera, G Boccaletti, C Deser… - nature climate …, 2023 - nature.com
There are contrasting views on how to produce the accurate predictions that are needed to
guide climate change adaptation. Here, we argue for harnessing artificial intelligence …

Are general circulation models obsolete?

V Balaji, F Couvreux, J Deshayes, J Gautrais… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Traditional general circulation models, or GCMs—that is, three-dimensional dynamical
models with unresolved terms represented in equations with tunable parameters—have …

To exascale and beyond—The Simple Cloud‐Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM), a performance portable global atmosphere model for cloud‐resolving …

AS Donahue, PM Caldwell, L Bertagna… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The new generation of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computer systems offer much greater
computational performance but are not yet widely used for climate modeling. One reason for …

Characteristics of convective precipitation over tropical Africa in storm‐resolving global simulations

T Becker, P Bechtold, I Sandu - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We analyse how the representation of deep convection affects the characteristics of
convective precipitation over tropical Africa in global storm‐resolving simulations with the …

A non‐intrusive machine learning framework for debiasing long‐time coarse resolution climate simulations and quantifying rare events statistics

B Barthel Sorensen… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the rapidly changing climate, the frequency and severity of extreme weather is
expected to increase over the coming decades. As fully‐resolved climate simulations remain …

Explainable offline‐online training of neural networks for parameterizations: A 1D gravity wave‐QBO testbed in the small‐data regime

HA Pahlavan, P Hassanzadeh… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There are different strategies for training neural networks (NNs) as subgrid‐scale
parameterizations. Here, we use a 1D model of the quasi‐biennial oscillation (QBO) and …

[HTML][HTML] ECLand: The ECMWF land surface modelling system

S Boussetta, G Balsamo, G Arduini, E Dutra… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
The land-surface developments of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF) are based on the Carbon-Hydrology Tiled Scheme for Surface …