A Temporal Stochastic Bias Correction using a Machine Learning Attention model
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| author | Nivron, Omer Wischik, Damon J. Vrac, Mathieu Shuckburgh, Emily Archibald, Alex T. |
| author_facet | Nivron, Omer Wischik, Damon J. Vrac, Mathieu Shuckburgh, Emily Archibald, Alex T. |
| contents | Climate models are biased with respect to real-world observations. They usually need to be adjusted before being used in impact studies. The suite of statistical methods that enable such adjustments is called bias correction (BC). However, BC methods currently struggle to adjust temporal biases. Because they mostly disregard the dependence between consecutive time points. As a result, climate statistics with long-range temporal properties, such as heatwave duration and frequency, cannot be corrected accurately. This makes it more difficult to produce reliable impact studies on such climate statistics. This paper offers a novel BC methodology to correct temporal biases. This is made possible by rethinking the philosophy behind BC. We will introduce BC as a time-indexed regression task with stochastic outputs. Rethinking BC enables us to adapt state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) attention models and thereby learn different types of biases, including temporal asynchronicities. With a case study of heatwave duration statistics in Abuja, Nigeria, and Tokyo, Japan, we show more accurate results than current climate model outputs and alternative BC methods. |
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| spellingShingle | A Temporal Stochastic Bias Correction using a Machine Learning Attention model Nivron, Omer Wischik, Damon J. Vrac, Mathieu Shuckburgh, Emily Archibald, Alex T. Machine Learning Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Climate models are biased with respect to real-world observations. They usually need to be adjusted before being used in impact studies. The suite of statistical methods that enable such adjustments is called bias correction (BC). However, BC methods currently struggle to adjust temporal biases. Because they mostly disregard the dependence between consecutive time points. As a result, climate statistics with long-range temporal properties, such as heatwave duration and frequency, cannot be corrected accurately. This makes it more difficult to produce reliable impact studies on such climate statistics. This paper offers a novel BC methodology to correct temporal biases. This is made possible by rethinking the philosophy behind BC. We will introduce BC as a time-indexed regression task with stochastic outputs. Rethinking BC enables us to adapt state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) attention models and thereby learn different types of biases, including temporal asynchronicities. With a case study of heatwave duration statistics in Abuja, Nigeria, and Tokyo, Japan, we show more accurate results than current climate model outputs and alternative BC methods. |
| title | A Temporal Stochastic Bias Correction using a Machine Learning Attention model |
| topic | Machine Learning Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14169 |