Recommendations for Comprehensive and Independent Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Earth System Models
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| author | Ullrich, Paul A. Barnes, Elizabeth A. Collins, William D. Dagon, Katherine Duan, Shiheng Elms, Joshua Lee, Jiwoo Leung, L. Ruby Lu, Dan Molina, Maria J. O'Brien, Travis A. Rebassoo, Finn O. |
| author_facet | Ullrich, Paul A. Barnes, Elizabeth A. Collins, William D. Dagon, Katherine Duan, Shiheng Elms, Joshua Lee, Jiwoo Leung, L. Ruby Lu, Dan Molina, Maria J. O'Brien, Travis A. Rebassoo, Finn O. |
| contents | Machine learning (ML) is a revolutionary technology with demonstrable applications across multiple disciplines. Within the Earth science community, ML has been most visible for weather forecasting, producing forecasts that rival modern physics-based models. Given the importance of deepening our understanding and improving predictions of the Earth system on all time scales, efforts are now underway to develop forecasting models into Earth-system models (ESMs), capable of representing all components of the coupled Earth system (or their aggregated behavior) and their response to external changes. Modeling the Earth system is a much more difficult problem than weather forecasting, not least because the model must represent the alternate (e.g., future) coupled states of the system for which there are no historical observations. Given that the physical principles that enable predictions about the response of the Earth system are often not explicitly coded in these ML-based models, demonstrating the credibility of ML-based ESMs thus requires us to build evidence of their consistency with the physical system. To this end, this paper puts forward five recommendations to enhance comprehensive, standardized, and independent evaluation of ML-based ESMs to strengthen their credibility and promote their wider use. |
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| spellingShingle | Recommendations for Comprehensive and Independent Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Earth System Models Ullrich, Paul A. Barnes, Elizabeth A. Collins, William D. Dagon, Katherine Duan, Shiheng Elms, Joshua Lee, Jiwoo Leung, L. Ruby Lu, Dan Molina, Maria J. O'Brien, Travis A. Rebassoo, Finn O. Machine Learning Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Machine learning (ML) is a revolutionary technology with demonstrable applications across multiple disciplines. Within the Earth science community, ML has been most visible for weather forecasting, producing forecasts that rival modern physics-based models. Given the importance of deepening our understanding and improving predictions of the Earth system on all time scales, efforts are now underway to develop forecasting models into Earth-system models (ESMs), capable of representing all components of the coupled Earth system (or their aggregated behavior) and their response to external changes. Modeling the Earth system is a much more difficult problem than weather forecasting, not least because the model must represent the alternate (e.g., future) coupled states of the system for which there are no historical observations. Given that the physical principles that enable predictions about the response of the Earth system are often not explicitly coded in these ML-based models, demonstrating the credibility of ML-based ESMs thus requires us to build evidence of their consistency with the physical system. To this end, this paper puts forward five recommendations to enhance comprehensive, standardized, and independent evaluation of ML-based ESMs to strengthen their credibility and promote their wider use. |
| title | Recommendations for Comprehensive and Independent Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Earth System Models |
| topic | Machine Learning Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19882 |