Satellite Observations Guided Diffusion Model for Accurate Meteorological States at Arbitrary Resolution

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Main Authors: Tu, Siwei, Fei, Ben, Yang, Weidong, Ling, Fenghua, Chen, Hao, Liu, Zili, Chen, Kun, Fan, Hang, Ouyang, Wanli, Bai, Lei
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author Tu, Siwei
Fei, Ben
Yang, Weidong
Ling, Fenghua
Chen, Hao
Liu, Zili
Chen, Kun
Fan, Hang
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
author_facet Tu, Siwei
Fei, Ben
Yang, Weidong
Ling, Fenghua
Chen, Hao
Liu, Zili
Chen, Kun
Fan, Hang
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
contents Accurate acquisition of surface meteorological conditions at arbitrary locations holds significant importance for weather forecasting and climate simulation. Due to the fact that meteorological states derived from satellite observations are often provided in the form of low-resolution grid fields, the direct application of spatial interpolation to obtain meteorological states for specific locations often results in significant discrepancies when compared to actual observations. Existing downscaling methods for acquiring meteorological state information at higher resolutions commonly overlook the correlation with satellite observations. To bridge the gap, we propose Satellite-observations Guided Diffusion Model (SGD), a conditional diffusion model pre-trained on ERA5 reanalysis data with satellite observations (GridSat) as conditions, which is employed for sampling downscaled meteorological states through a zero-shot guided sampling strategy and patch-based methods. During the training process, we propose to fuse the information from GridSat satellite observations into ERA5 maps via the attention mechanism, enabling SGD to generate atmospheric states that align more accurately with actual conditions. In the sampling, we employed optimizable convolutional kernels to simulate the upscale process, thereby generating high-resolution ERA5 maps using low-resolution ERA5 maps as well as observations from weather stations as guidance. Moreover, our devised patch-based method promotes SGD to generate meteorological states at arbitrary resolutions. Experiments demonstrate SGD fulfills accurate meteorological states downscaling to 6.25km.
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spellingShingle Satellite Observations Guided Diffusion Model for Accurate Meteorological States at Arbitrary Resolution
Tu, Siwei
Fei, Ben
Yang, Weidong
Ling, Fenghua
Chen, Hao
Liu, Zili
Chen, Kun
Fan, Hang
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Accurate acquisition of surface meteorological conditions at arbitrary locations holds significant importance for weather forecasting and climate simulation. Due to the fact that meteorological states derived from satellite observations are often provided in the form of low-resolution grid fields, the direct application of spatial interpolation to obtain meteorological states for specific locations often results in significant discrepancies when compared to actual observations. Existing downscaling methods for acquiring meteorological state information at higher resolutions commonly overlook the correlation with satellite observations. To bridge the gap, we propose Satellite-observations Guided Diffusion Model (SGD), a conditional diffusion model pre-trained on ERA5 reanalysis data with satellite observations (GridSat) as conditions, which is employed for sampling downscaled meteorological states through a zero-shot guided sampling strategy and patch-based methods. During the training process, we propose to fuse the information from GridSat satellite observations into ERA5 maps via the attention mechanism, enabling SGD to generate atmospheric states that align more accurately with actual conditions. In the sampling, we employed optimizable convolutional kernels to simulate the upscale process, thereby generating high-resolution ERA5 maps using low-resolution ERA5 maps as well as observations from weather stations as guidance. Moreover, our devised patch-based method promotes SGD to generate meteorological states at arbitrary resolutions. Experiments demonstrate SGD fulfills accurate meteorological states downscaling to 6.25km.
title Satellite Observations Guided Diffusion Model for Accurate Meteorological States at Arbitrary Resolution
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07814