Generalizing Weather Forecast to Fine-grained Temporal Scales via Physics-AI Hybrid Modeling

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Autores principales: Xu, Wanghan, Ling, Fenghua, Zhang, Wenlong, Han, Tao, Chen, Hao, Ouyang, Wanli, Bai, Lei
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Publicado: 2024
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author Xu, Wanghan
Ling, Fenghua
Zhang, Wenlong
Han, Tao
Chen, Hao
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
author_facet Xu, Wanghan
Ling, Fenghua
Zhang, Wenlong
Han, Tao
Chen, Hao
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
contents Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) models have made significant advancements in weather forecasting, particularly in medium-range and nowcasting. However, most data-driven weather forecasting models are black-box systems that focus on learning data mapping rather than fine-grained physical evolution in the time dimension. Consequently, the limitations in the temporal scale of datasets prevent these models from forecasting at finer time scales. This paper proposes a physics-AI hybrid model (i.e., WeatherGFT) which generalizes weather forecasts to finer-grained temporal scales beyond training dataset. Specifically, we employ a carefully designed PDE kernel to simulate physical evolution on a small time scale (e.g., 300 seconds) and use a parallel neural networks with a learnable router for bias correction. Furthermore, we introduce a lead time-aware training framework to promote the generalization of the model at different lead times. The weight analysis of physics-AI modules indicates that physics conducts major evolution while AI performs corrections adaptively. Extensive experiments show that WeatherGFT trained on an hourly dataset, effectively generalizes forecasts across multiple time scales, including 30-minute, which is even smaller than the dataset's temporal resolution.
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spellingShingle Generalizing Weather Forecast to Fine-grained Temporal Scales via Physics-AI Hybrid Modeling
Xu, Wanghan
Ling, Fenghua
Zhang, Wenlong
Han, Tao
Chen, Hao
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) models have made significant advancements in weather forecasting, particularly in medium-range and nowcasting. However, most data-driven weather forecasting models are black-box systems that focus on learning data mapping rather than fine-grained physical evolution in the time dimension. Consequently, the limitations in the temporal scale of datasets prevent these models from forecasting at finer time scales. This paper proposes a physics-AI hybrid model (i.e., WeatherGFT) which generalizes weather forecasts to finer-grained temporal scales beyond training dataset. Specifically, we employ a carefully designed PDE kernel to simulate physical evolution on a small time scale (e.g., 300 seconds) and use a parallel neural networks with a learnable router for bias correction. Furthermore, we introduce a lead time-aware training framework to promote the generalization of the model at different lead times. The weight analysis of physics-AI modules indicates that physics conducts major evolution while AI performs corrections adaptively. Extensive experiments show that WeatherGFT trained on an hourly dataset, effectively generalizes forecasts across multiple time scales, including 30-minute, which is even smaller than the dataset's temporal resolution.
title Generalizing Weather Forecast to Fine-grained Temporal Scales via Physics-AI Hybrid Modeling
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13796