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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Njord: A Probabilistic Graph Neural Network for Ensemble Ocean Forecasting

Ocean dynamics are inherently chaotic, yet existing machine learning ocean models produce only deterministic forecasts. We introduce Njord, a probabilistic data-driven model for ocean forecasting, applicable to both global and regional domains. Njord combines a deep latent variable framework with a graph neural network...

Daniel Holmberg, Joel Oskarsson, Erik Wikingsson et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Long-Range Distillation: Distilling 10,000 Years of Simulated Climate into Long Timestep AI Weather Models

Accurate long-range weather forecasting remains a major challenge for AI models, both because errors accumulate over autoregressive rollouts and because reanalysis training datasets provide limited sampling of the slow modes of variability underpinning predictability. Most AI and all numerical weather prediction models...

Scott A. Martin, Noah Brenowitz, Dale Durran et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards accurate extreme event likelihoods from diffusion model climate emulators

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) has been proposed for generation of atmospheric states compatible with boundary conditions of solar position and sea surface temperatures....

Peter Manshausen, Noah Brenowitz, Julius Berner et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Accounting for model error in ensemble variational data assimilation through learned generative dynamics

Many approaches have recently been proposed to combine data assimilation with machine learning for improved forecasts with geophysical models. Here, we focus on combining advanced sequential data assimilation schemes with a generative forecasting model which accounts for complex model errors. This generative model prov...

M. Bocquet, T. S. Finn, Si-Bo Cheng · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Statistical Downscaling of Daily Precipitation from ERA5 Atmospheric Fields to IMERG over West Africa

Global reanalyses are too coarse to resolve the convective systems that produce most West African monsoon rainfall. In this work, we use U-Net based architectures to downscale daily ERA5 fields (0.25{\deg}) to IMERG V07 satellite precipitation (0.1{\deg}) over West Africa for the June to October seasons of 2000 to 2024...

David Sagna, Redouane Lguensat, Samo Diatta · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sensitivity Fidelity Reveals Physical Dependencies Beyond Forecast Accuracy in Deep-Learning Earth-System Models

Deep-learning models increasingly rival numerical simulation in Earth-system forecasting, yet forecast error alone cannot determine whether their learned input-output dependencies are physically consistent. Here we introduce sensitivity fidelity as an additional criterion: alongside prediction error, model responses to...

Qi Chen, Peng Zhan, Hongxing Cui et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Graph Neural Network for Global Daily Fire Radiative Power Prediction at Medium-Range Lead Times

Skillful prediction of biomass-burning activity several days in advance is important for air-quality forecasting and aerosol prediction. Two operational constraints motivate this work. First, the GBBEPx satellite fire radiative power (FRP) product used to initialize NOAA's GEFS-Aerosols is available with about a 1.5-da...

Li Zhang, Jun Wang, Isidora Jankov et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Low-rank tensor structure of precipitation and its application to satellite-reference merging

The intermittent and variable nature of precipitation makes its accurate estimation over extended domains difficult, yet its spatiotemporal structure suggests that a low-rank representation may be possible. This work represents daily precipitation over the contiguous United States (CONUS) as spatiotemporal tensors and...

Ryan Solgi, Rohan Shankar, Hugo A. Loaiciga · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Strategic Governance of AI Models in Earth Science

AI foundation models pretrained on weather and climate data are increasingly fine-tuned to Earth science tasks well beyond weather forecasting. Their development and adoption are outpacing the scientific community's ability to evaluate them. These models are judged almost entirely by benchmark skill metrics, which meas...

Makoto Kelp, Amirhossein Arzani, Patricia Castellanos et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conditional Flow Matching for Generation of 3D Multi-variable Instantaneous Urban Microclimate Fields

Rapid and accurate prediction of urban wind and temperature fields is important for urban microclimate design and climate adaptation. Large-eddy simulation (LES) effectively resolves these instantaneous fields, but its application is limited in iterative design of urban microclimate applications due to high computation...

Peng Liu, Shaoxiang Qin, Theodore Potsis et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Learning joint probabilistic weather forecasts from station observations alone

Assessing compound weather risks requires forecasts representing dependence between variables. CLARA (Calibrated Advection-Routing Attention) learns joint Gaussian predictive distributions of five surface variables from station observations alone, without numerical weather prediction or reanalysis; the approximately 28...

Chaeyeon Yi, Y. Seo · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EC-EarthFlow: Probabilistic emulation of daily transient global climate model simulations with flow matching

We introduce EC-EarthFlow, a generative flow matching model that emulates simulations from the physical climate model EC-Earth3. The model is trained on transient simulations from EC-Earth3 (1950-2166, SSP2-4.5) to predict the day ahead temperature field from the previous days temperature as well as annual mean tempera...

Kirien Whan, Nikolaj T. M\"ucke, Karin van der Wiel · 0 citations

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