IndiaWeatherBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Data-Driven Regional Weather Forecasting over India
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| author | Nguyen, Tung Singh, Harkanwar Naharas, Nilay Bandarkar, Lucas Grover, Aditya |
| author_facet | Nguyen, Tung Singh, Harkanwar Naharas, Nilay Bandarkar, Lucas Grover, Aditya |
| contents | Regional weather forecasting is a critical problem for localized climate adaptation, disaster mitigation, and sustainable development. While machine learning has shown impressive progress in global weather forecasting, regional forecasting remains comparatively underexplored. Existing efforts often use different datasets and experimental setups, limiting fair comparison and reproducibility. We introduce IndiaWeatherBench, a comprehensive benchmark for data-driven regional weather forecasting focused on the Indian subcontinent. IndiaWeatherBench provides a curated dataset built from high-resolution regional reanalysis products, along with a suite of deterministic and probabilistic metrics to facilitate consistent training and evaluation. To establish strong baselines, we implement and evaluate a range of models across diverse architectures, including UNets, Transformers, and Graph-based networks, as well as different boundary conditioning strategies and training objectives. While focused on India, IndiaWeatherBench is easily extensible to other geographic regions. We open-source all raw and preprocessed datasets, model implementations, and evaluation pipelines to promote accessibility and future development. We hope IndiaWeatherBench will serve as a foundation for advancing regional weather forecasting research. Code is available at https://github.com/tung-nd/IndiaWeatherBench. |
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| spellingShingle | IndiaWeatherBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Data-Driven Regional Weather Forecasting over India Nguyen, Tung Singh, Harkanwar Naharas, Nilay Bandarkar, Lucas Grover, Aditya Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Regional weather forecasting is a critical problem for localized climate adaptation, disaster mitigation, and sustainable development. While machine learning has shown impressive progress in global weather forecasting, regional forecasting remains comparatively underexplored. Existing efforts often use different datasets and experimental setups, limiting fair comparison and reproducibility. We introduce IndiaWeatherBench, a comprehensive benchmark for data-driven regional weather forecasting focused on the Indian subcontinent. IndiaWeatherBench provides a curated dataset built from high-resolution regional reanalysis products, along with a suite of deterministic and probabilistic metrics to facilitate consistent training and evaluation. To establish strong baselines, we implement and evaluate a range of models across diverse architectures, including UNets, Transformers, and Graph-based networks, as well as different boundary conditioning strategies and training objectives. While focused on India, IndiaWeatherBench is easily extensible to other geographic regions. We open-source all raw and preprocessed datasets, model implementations, and evaluation pipelines to promote accessibility and future development. We hope IndiaWeatherBench will serve as a foundation for advancing regional weather forecasting research. Code is available at https://github.com/tung-nd/IndiaWeatherBench. |
| title | IndiaWeatherBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Data-Driven Regional Weather Forecasting over India |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00653 |