Articles | Volume 24, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7041-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7041-2024
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19 Jun 2024
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Opinion: Optimizing climate models with process knowledge, resolution, and artificial intelligence

Tapio Schneider, L. Ruby Leung, and Robert C. J. Wills

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Atmospheric spectra plots from "Opinion: Optimizing climate models with process-knowledge, resolution, and AI", Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2024 Tapio Schneider https://doi.org/10.22002/qemqk-rgq45

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Error analysis of climate models from CMIP3 through CMIP6, including AMIP and higher-resolution models Robert C. J. Wills and Tapio Schneider https://doi.org/10.22002/z24s9-nqc90

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This article was solicited for the ACP 20th Anniversary collection. It received positive reviews that very nicely contributed to the ideas and to which the authors responded thoroughly. It is a stimulating read, combining 'big-picture' considerations with more detailed technical discussion of important and illuminating examples.
Short summary

Climate models are crucial for predicting climate change in detail. This paper proposes a balanced approach to improving their accuracy by combining traditional process-based methods with modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques while maximizing the resolution to allow for ensemble simulations. The authors propose using AI to learn from both observational and simulated data while incorporating existing physical knowledge to reduce data demands and improve climate prediction reliability.

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