Tackling climate change with machine learning

D Rolnick, PL Donti, LH Kaack, K Kochanski… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine
learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a …

Impacts of climate change on water-related mosquito-borne diseases in temperate regions: A systematic review of literature and meta-analysis

Z Gizaw, E Salubi, A Pietroniro, CJ Schuster-Wallace - Acta Tropica, 2024 - Elsevier
Mosquito-borne diseases are a known tropical phenomenon. This review was conducted to
assesses the mechanisms through which climate change impacts mosquito-borne diseases …

Causal networks for climate model evaluation and constrained projections

P Nowack, J Runge, V Eyring, JD Haigh - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Global climate models are central tools for understanding past and future climate change.
The assessment of model skill, in turn, can benefit from modern data science approaches …

Using machine learning to parameterize moist convection: Potential for modeling of climate, climate change, and extreme events

PA O'Gorman, JG Dwyer - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The parameterization of moist convection contributes to uncertainty in climate modeling and
numerical weather prediction. Machine learning (ML) can be used to learn new …

Using machine learning to build temperature-based ozone parameterizations for climate sensitivity simulations

P Nowack, P Braesicke, J Haigh… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A number of studies have demonstrated the importance of ozone in climate change
simulations, for example concerning global warming projections and atmospheric dynamics …

The historical development of large‐scale paleoclimate field reconstructions over the common era

JE Smerdon, ER Cook, NJ Steiger - Reviews of Geophysics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate field reconstructions (CFRs) combine modern observational data with paleoclimatic
proxies to estimate climate variables over spatiotemporal grids during time periods when …

Climalign: Unsupervised statistical downscaling of climate variables via normalizing flows

B Groenke, L Madaus, C Monteleoni - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Downscaling is a common task in climate science and meteorology in which the goal is to
use coarse scale, spatio-temporal data to infer values at finer scales. Statistical downscaling …

Application-driven innovation in machine learning

D Rolnick, A Aspuru-Guzik, S Beery, B Dilkina… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
As applications of machine learning proliferate, innovative algorithms inspired by specific
real-world challenges have become increasingly important. Such work offers the potential …

Nested sequential monte carlo methods

C Naesseth, F Lindsten… - … Conference on Machine …, 2015 - proceedings.mlr.press
We propose nested sequential Monte Carlo (NSMC), a methodology to sample from
sequences of probability distributions, even where the random variables are high …

Position: Application-driven innovation in machine learning

D Rolnick, A Aspuru-Guzik, S Beery… - … on Machine Learning, 2024 - openreview.net
In this position paper, we argue that application-driven research has been systemically
under-valued in the machine learning community. As applications of machine learning …