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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2303-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2303-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Technical note
| 
26 Feb 2020
Technical note |
| 26 Feb 2020
| 26 Feb 2020
Technical note: Deep learning for creating surrogate models of precipitation in Earth system models
Theodore Weber
Computer Science Department, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, WA, USA
Austin Corotan
Computer Science Department, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, WA, USA
Brian Hutchinson
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Computer Science Department, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, WA, USA
Computing and Analytics Division, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA
Ben Kravitz
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN, USA
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Robert Link
Joint Global Change Research
Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, USA
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Short summary
Climate model emulators can save computer time but are less accurate than full climate models. We use neural networks to build emulators of precipitation, trained on existing climate model runs. By doing so, we can capture nonlinearities and how the past state of a model (to some degree) shapes the future state. Our emulator outperforms a persistence forecast of precipitation.
Climate model emulators can save computer time but are less accurate than full climate models....
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