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Opinion: Optimizing climate models with process knowledge, resolution, and artificial intelligence
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA
L. Ruby Leung
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Robert C. J. Wills
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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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.
This article was solicited for the ACP 20th Anniversary collection. It received positive...
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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.
Climate models are crucial for predicting climate change in detail. This paper proposes a...
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