Hybrid physics-data-driven modeling for sea ice thermodynamics and transfer learning
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| author | De Cillis, Giovanni Carrassi, Alberto Brajard, Julien Bertino, Laurent Broccoli, Matteo Iovino, Dorotea Finn, Tobias Sebastian Bocquet, Marc |
| author_facet | De Cillis, Giovanni Carrassi, Alberto Brajard, Julien Bertino, Laurent Broccoli, Matteo Iovino, Dorotea Finn, Tobias Sebastian Bocquet, Marc |
| contents | This study explores a physics-data driven hybrid approach for sea-ice column physics models, in which a machine learning (ML) component acts as a state-dependent parameterization of forecast errors. We examine how perturbations in snow thermodynamics and sea-ice radiative properties affect forecast errors, and train dedicated neural networks (NNs) for each model configuration. The performance of the hybrid models is evaluated for long lead-time forecasts and compared against a benchmark system based on climatological forecast-error estimates. The NN-based hybrids prove to be stable, robust to initial condition and atmospheric forcing errors, and consistently outperform their climatology-based counterpart. To derive guiding principles for efficiently handling possible physical model updates, we perform transfer learning experiments to test whether pretrained NNs optimized for one model configuration can be successfully adapted to another. Results indicate that direct evaluation of pretrained networks on the target task provides useful insights into their adaptability, recommending transfer learning whenever performance exceeds a trivial baseline. Finally, a feature-importance analysis shows that atmospheric forcing inputs have negligible influence on NN predictive skill, while ice-layer enthalpies play a key role in achieving satisfactory performance. |
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| spellingShingle | Hybrid physics-data-driven modeling for sea ice thermodynamics and transfer learning De Cillis, Giovanni Carrassi, Alberto Brajard, Julien Bertino, Laurent Broccoli, Matteo Iovino, Dorotea Finn, Tobias Sebastian Bocquet, Marc Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics This study explores a physics-data driven hybrid approach for sea-ice column physics models, in which a machine learning (ML) component acts as a state-dependent parameterization of forecast errors. We examine how perturbations in snow thermodynamics and sea-ice radiative properties affect forecast errors, and train dedicated neural networks (NNs) for each model configuration. The performance of the hybrid models is evaluated for long lead-time forecasts and compared against a benchmark system based on climatological forecast-error estimates. The NN-based hybrids prove to be stable, robust to initial condition and atmospheric forcing errors, and consistently outperform their climatology-based counterpart. To derive guiding principles for efficiently handling possible physical model updates, we perform transfer learning experiments to test whether pretrained NNs optimized for one model configuration can be successfully adapted to another. Results indicate that direct evaluation of pretrained networks on the target task provides useful insights into their adaptability, recommending transfer learning whenever performance exceeds a trivial baseline. Finally, a feature-importance analysis shows that atmospheric forcing inputs have negligible influence on NN predictive skill, while ice-layer enthalpies play a key role in achieving satisfactory performance. |
| title | Hybrid physics-data-driven modeling for sea ice thermodynamics and transfer learning |
| topic | Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23190 |