Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fan, Linhao, Fang, Hongqiang, Dai, Jingyang, Jiang, Yong, Zhang, Qixing
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24847
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866908741471830016
author Fan, Linhao
Fang, Hongqiang
Dai, Jingyang
Jiang, Yong
Zhang, Qixing
author_facet Fan, Linhao
Fang, Hongqiang
Dai, Jingyang
Jiang, Yong
Zhang, Qixing
contents High-quality reconstruction of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) fields is critical for Atmosphere monitoring, yet current models remain constrained by the scarcity of complete training data and a lack of uncertainty quantification.To address these limitations, we propose AODDiff, a probabilistic reconstruction framework based on diffusion-based Bayesian inference. By leveraging the learned spatiotemporal probability distribution of the AOD field as a generative prior, this framework can be flexibly adapted to various reconstruction tasks without requiring task-specific retraining. We first introduce a corruption-aware training strategy to learns a spatiotemporal AOD prior solely from naturally incomplete data. Subsequently, we employ a decoupled annealing posterior sampling strategy that enables the more effective and integration of heterogeneous observations as constraints to guide the generation process. We validate the proposed framework through extensive experiments on Reanalysis data. Results across downscaling and inpainting tasks confirm the efficacy and robustness of AODDiff, specifically demonstrating its advantage in maintaining high spatial spectral fidelity. Furthermore, as a generative model, AODDiff inherently enables uncertainty quantification via multiple sampling, offering critical confidence metrics for downstream applications.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2512_24847
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle AODDiff: Probabilistic Reconstruction of Aerosol Optical Depth via Diffusion-based Bayesian Inference
Fan, Linhao
Fang, Hongqiang
Dai, Jingyang
Jiang, Yong
Zhang, Qixing
Machine Learning
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
High-quality reconstruction of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) fields is critical for Atmosphere monitoring, yet current models remain constrained by the scarcity of complete training data and a lack of uncertainty quantification.To address these limitations, we propose AODDiff, a probabilistic reconstruction framework based on diffusion-based Bayesian inference. By leveraging the learned spatiotemporal probability distribution of the AOD field as a generative prior, this framework can be flexibly adapted to various reconstruction tasks without requiring task-specific retraining. We first introduce a corruption-aware training strategy to learns a spatiotemporal AOD prior solely from naturally incomplete data. Subsequently, we employ a decoupled annealing posterior sampling strategy that enables the more effective and integration of heterogeneous observations as constraints to guide the generation process. We validate the proposed framework through extensive experiments on Reanalysis data. Results across downscaling and inpainting tasks confirm the efficacy and robustness of AODDiff, specifically demonstrating its advantage in maintaining high spatial spectral fidelity. Furthermore, as a generative model, AODDiff inherently enables uncertainty quantification via multiple sampling, offering critical confidence metrics for downstream applications.
title AODDiff: Probabilistic Reconstruction of Aerosol Optical Depth via Diffusion-based Bayesian Inference
topic Machine Learning
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24847