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Climate downscaling, the process of generating high-resolution climate data from low-resolution simulations, is essential for understanding and adapting to climate change at regional and local scales. Deep learning approaches have proven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ayush Prasad , Paula Harder , Qidong Yang , Prasanna Sattegeri , Daniela Szwarcman , Campbell Watson , David Rolnick

Climate downscaling is a crucial technique within climate research, serving to project low-resolution (LR) climate data to higher resolutions (HR). Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of deep learning for downscaling tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Naufal Shidqi , Chaeyoon Jeong , Sungwon Park , Elke Zeller , Arjun Babu Nellikkattil , Karandeep Singh

Effective adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change require high-resolution projections to inform strategic decision-making. Conventional global climate models, which typically operate at resolutions of 150 to 200 kilometers,…

Addressing the challenges of climate change requires accurate and high-resolution mapping of geospatial data, especially climate and weather variables. However, many existing geospatial datasets, such as the gridded outputs of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Guiye Li , Guofeng Cao

Greenhouse gases are pivotal drivers of climate change, necessitating precise quantification and source identification to foster mitigation strategies. We introduce GeoViT, a compact vision transformer model adept in processing satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Madhav Khirwar , Ankur Narang

Global Storm-Resolving Models (GSRMs) have gained widespread interest because of the unprecedented detail with which they resolve the global climate. However, it remains difficult to quantify objective differences in how GSRMs resolve…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Griffin Mooers , Mike Pritchard , Tom Beucler , Prakhar Srivastava , Harshini Mangipudi , Liran Peng , Pierre Gentine , Stephan Mandt

Deep learning offers promising capabilities for the statistical downscaling of climate and weather forecasts, with generative approaches showing particular success in capturing fine-scale precipitation patterns. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Paula Harder , Christian Lessig , Matthew Chantry , Francis Pelletier , David Rolnick

The advent of data-driven weather forecasting models, which learn from hundreds of terabytes (TB) of reanalysis data, has significantly advanced forecasting capabilities. However, the substantial costs associated with data storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Tao Han , Zhenghao Chen , Song Guo , Wanghan Xu , Lei Bai

Rain-by-snow weather removal is a specialized task in weather-degraded image restoration aiming to eliminate coexisting rain streaks and snow particles. In this paper, we propose RSFormer, an efficient and effective Transformer that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tao Gao , Yuanbo Wen , Kaihao Zhang , Peng Cheng , Ting Chen

Accurate crop yield forecasting is essential for global food security. However, current AI models systematically underperform when yields deviate from historical trends. We attribute this to the lack of rich, physically grounded datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Adib Hasan , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther Dahleh

While AI-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) enables rapid forecasting, generating high-resolution outputs remains computationally demanding due to limited multi-scale adaptability and inefficient data representations. We propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tao Han , Zhibin Wen , Zhenghao Chen , Fenghua Lin , Junyu Gao , Song Guo , Lei Bai

General Circulation Models (GCMs) are widely used for future climate projections, but their coarse spatial resolution and systematic biases limit their direct use for impact studies. This limitation is particularly critical for wind-related…

Quantifying the impacts of anthropogenic global warming requires accurate Earth system model (ESM) simulations. Statistical bias correction and downscaling can be applied to reduce errors and increase the resolution of ESMs. However,…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Philipp Hess , Niklas Boers

Weather forecasting is a vitally important tool for tasks ranging from planning day to day activities to disaster response planning. However, modeling weather has proven to be challenging task due to its chaotic and unpredictable nature.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Lawrence Zhang , Adam Yang , Rodz Andrie Amor , Bryan Zhang , Dhruv Rao

Most operational climate services providers base their seasonal predictions on initialised general circulation models (GCMs) or statistical techniques that fit past observations. GCMs require substantial computational resources, which…

With a potentially increasing share of the electricity grid relying on wind to provide generating capacity and energy, there is an expanding global need for historically accurate, spatiotemporally continuous, high-resolution wind data.…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Brandon N. Benton , Grant Buster , Pavlo Pinchuk , Andrew Glaws , Ryan N. King , Galen Maclaurin , Ilya Chernyakhovskiy

The practical use of future climate projections from global circulation models (GCMs) is often limited by their coarse spatial resolution, requiring downscaling to generate high-resolution data. Regional climate models (RCMs) provide this…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Maybritt Schillinger , Maxim Samarin , Xinwei Shen , Reto Knutti , Nicolai Meinshausen

Rapid changes and increasing climatic variability across the widely varied Koppen-Geiger regions of northern Europe generate significant needs for adaptation. Regional planning needs high-resolution projected temperatures. This work…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Parthiban Loganathan , Elias Zea , Ricardo Vinuesa , Evelyn Otero

The demand for high-resolution information on climate change is critical for accurate projections and decision-making. Presently, this need is addressed through high-resolution climate models or downscaling. High-resolution models are…

We address the essential role of information retrieval in enhancing climate downscaling, focusing on the need for high-resolution datasets and the application of deep learning models. We explore the requirements for acquiring detailed…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Declan Curran , Hira Saleem , Flora Salim