CLARE: Classification-based Regression for Electron Temperature Prediction

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Autores principales: Liang, Michael, DeHaas, Blake, Maruyama, Naomi, Chu, Xiangning, Abe, Takumi, Oyama, Koh-Ichiro
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Publicado: 2026
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author Liang, Michael
DeHaas, Blake
Maruyama, Naomi
Chu, Xiangning
Abe, Takumi
Oyama, Koh-Ichiro
author_facet Liang, Michael
DeHaas, Blake
Maruyama, Naomi
Chu, Xiangning
Abe, Takumi
Oyama, Koh-Ichiro
contents Electron temperature (Te) is an important parameter governing space weather in the upper atmosphere, but has historically been underexplored in the space weather machine learning literature. We present CLARE, a machine learning model for predicting electron temperature in the Earth's plasmasphere trained on AKEBONO (EXOS-D) satellite measurements as well as solar and geomagnetic indices. CLARE uses a classification-based regression architecture that transforms the continuous Te output space into 150 discrete classification intervals. Training the model on a classification task improves prediction accuracy by 6.46% relative compared to a traditional regression model while also outputting uncertainty estimation information on its predictions. On a held out test set from the AKEBONO data, the model's Te predictions achieve 69.67% accuracy within 10% of the ground truth and 46.17% on a known geomagnetic storm period from January 30th to February 7th, 1991. We show that machine learning can be used to produce high-accuracy Te models on publicly available data.
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spellingShingle CLARE: Classification-based Regression for Electron Temperature Prediction
Liang, Michael
DeHaas, Blake
Maruyama, Naomi
Chu, Xiangning
Abe, Takumi
Oyama, Koh-Ichiro
Space Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Electron temperature (Te) is an important parameter governing space weather in the upper atmosphere, but has historically been underexplored in the space weather machine learning literature. We present CLARE, a machine learning model for predicting electron temperature in the Earth's plasmasphere trained on AKEBONO (EXOS-D) satellite measurements as well as solar and geomagnetic indices. CLARE uses a classification-based regression architecture that transforms the continuous Te output space into 150 discrete classification intervals. Training the model on a classification task improves prediction accuracy by 6.46% relative compared to a traditional regression model while also outputting uncertainty estimation information on its predictions. On a held out test set from the AKEBONO data, the model's Te predictions achieve 69.67% accuracy within 10% of the ground truth and 46.17% on a known geomagnetic storm period from January 30th to February 7th, 1991. We show that machine learning can be used to produce high-accuracy Te models on publicly available data.
title CLARE: Classification-based Regression for Electron Temperature Prediction
topic Space Physics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12470