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Main Authors: Sun, Yiming, Chen, Shuo, Chen, Shengyu, Qiu, Chonghao, Liu, Licheng, Oh, Youmi, Malone, Sparkle L., McNicol, Gavin, Zhuang, Qianlai, Smith, Chris, Xie, Yiqun, Jia, Xiaowei
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18355
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author Sun, Yiming
Chen, Shuo
Chen, Shengyu
Qiu, Chonghao
Liu, Licheng
Oh, Youmi
Malone, Sparkle L.
McNicol, Gavin
Zhuang, Qianlai
Smith, Chris
Xie, Yiqun
Jia, Xiaowei
author_facet Sun, Yiming
Chen, Shuo
Chen, Shengyu
Qiu, Chonghao
Liu, Licheng
Oh, Youmi
Malone, Sparkle L.
McNicol, Gavin
Zhuang, Qianlai
Smith, Chris
Xie, Yiqun
Jia, Xiaowei
contents Methane (CH$_4$) is the second most powerful greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and plays a crucial role in climate change due to its high global warming potential. Accurately modeling CH$_4$ fluxes across the globe and at fine temporal scales is essential for understanding its spatial and temporal variability and developing effective mitigation strategies. In this work, we introduce the first-of-its-kind cross-scale global wetland methane benchmark dataset (X-MethaneWet), which synthesizes physics-based model simulation data from TEM-MDM and the real-world observation data from FLUXNET-CH$_4$. This dataset can offer opportunities for improving global wetland CH$_4$ modeling and science discovery with new AI algorithms. To set up AI model baselines for methane flux prediction, we evaluate the performance of various sequential deep learning models on X-MethaneWet. Furthermore, we explore four different transfer learning techniques to leverage simulated data from TEM-MDM to improve the generalization of deep learning models on real-world FLUXNET-CH$_4$ observations. Our extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of these approaches, highlighting their potential for advancing methane emission modeling and identifying new opportunities for developing more accurate and scalable AI-driven climate models.
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spellingShingle X-MethaneWet: A Cross-scale Global Wetland Methane Emission Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Science Discovery with AI
Sun, Yiming
Chen, Shuo
Chen, Shengyu
Qiu, Chonghao
Liu, Licheng
Oh, Youmi
Malone, Sparkle L.
McNicol, Gavin
Zhuang, Qianlai
Smith, Chris
Xie, Yiqun
Jia, Xiaowei
Machine Learning
Methane (CH$_4$) is the second most powerful greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and plays a crucial role in climate change due to its high global warming potential. Accurately modeling CH$_4$ fluxes across the globe and at fine temporal scales is essential for understanding its spatial and temporal variability and developing effective mitigation strategies. In this work, we introduce the first-of-its-kind cross-scale global wetland methane benchmark dataset (X-MethaneWet), which synthesizes physics-based model simulation data from TEM-MDM and the real-world observation data from FLUXNET-CH$_4$. This dataset can offer opportunities for improving global wetland CH$_4$ modeling and science discovery with new AI algorithms. To set up AI model baselines for methane flux prediction, we evaluate the performance of various sequential deep learning models on X-MethaneWet. Furthermore, we explore four different transfer learning techniques to leverage simulated data from TEM-MDM to improve the generalization of deep learning models on real-world FLUXNET-CH$_4$ observations. Our extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of these approaches, highlighting their potential for advancing methane emission modeling and identifying new opportunities for developing more accurate and scalable AI-driven climate models.
title X-MethaneWet: A Cross-scale Global Wetland Methane Emission Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Science Discovery with AI
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18355