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title: "Climate Machine Learning Applications"
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## Teaching Material Recap {.smaller}

Over the ML sessions at the summer school we have learnt about:

- Classification - categorising items based on information
- Regression - using information to predict another value

using:
We have learnt the theory behind using:

- ANNs - using input _features_ to make predictions
- CNNs - using _image-like_ data as an input
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## Applications in geosciences: {.smaller}

See review of @kashinath2021physics
See review of @kashinath2021physics and @gmd-16-6433-2023

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- Emulation of existing parameterisations
[@espinosa2022machine]
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- Data-driven paramterisations
- Data-driven parameterisations
[@yuval2020stable; @giglio2018estimating]
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- Downscaling/Upsampling
[@harris2022generative]
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- Climate Emulators
[@watt2025ace2; @chapman2025camulator; @Dheeshjith_2025]
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[@zanna2020data; @ma2021data]
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- Complete forecasting
[@rasp2020weatherbench; @pathak2022fourcastnet; @bi2022pangu]
[@pathak2022fourcastnet; @bi2022pangu; @nguyen2023climax; @rasp2024weatherbench; @Kochkov_2024; @nathaniel2024chaosbench; @bodnar2025foundation]
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Required for accuracy and stability
* Language interoperation

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- Train to predict _'image'_ from coarsened version.
- Topography?

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Image by [Earth Lab](https://www.earthdatascience.org/courses/use-data-open-source-python/hierarchical-data-formats-hdf/intro-to-MACAv2-cmip5-data/)
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## Forecasting {.smaller}

- Time-series
- popular use
- Recurrent Neural Nets
- Complete weather
- FourCastNet, Pangu-Weather, GraphCast
- FourCastNet, Pangu-Weather, ClimaX
- GraphCast, NeuralGCM, Aurora

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Speaker notes go here.
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## Differentiable Models

- Online training
- End-to-end differentiable GCMs
- Greater stability

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## Foundation Models
- Pretrained on large amount of heterogeneous climate datasets
- Aims to learn general purpose representations of dynamic
- Fine tune for specific forecasting tasks
- Examples:
- ClimaX, Microsoft Aurora
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Might be interesting to mention where these fall down? Why these methods don't work well for sub seasonal and longer term forecasting?

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- Limitations
- Poor accuracy beyond short term forecasts
- Predict unrealistic dynamics [@chattopadhyay2023long]



# Challenges

## Training data - considerations {.smaller}
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- Language interoperation
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JOURNAL = {Geoscientific Model Development},
VOLUME = {16},
YEAR = {2023},
NUMBER = {22},
PAGES = {6433--6477},
URL = {https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/6433/2023/},
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@article{watt2025ace2,
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@article{chapman2025camulator,
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@article{rasp2024weatherbench,
title={WeatherBench 2: A benchmark for the next generation of data-driven global weather models},
author={Rasp, Stephan and Hoyer, Stephan and Merose, Alexander and Langmore, Ian and Battaglia, Peter and Russell, Tyler and Sanchez-Gonzalez, Alvaro and Yang, Vivian and Carver, Rob and Agrawal, Shreya and others},
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number={6},
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publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}

@article{nathaniel2024chaosbench,
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author={Nathaniel, Juan and Qu, Yongquan and Nguyen, Tung and Yu, Sungduk and Busecke, Julius and Grover, Aditya and Gentine, Pierre},
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}

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journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07029},
year={2023}
}
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