Towards implementing artificial intelligence post-processing in weather and climate: proposed actions from the Oxford 2019 workshop

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The most mature aspect of applying artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) to problems in the atmospheric sciences is likely post-processing of model output. This article provides some history and current state of the science of post-processing with AI for weather and climate models. Deriving from the discussion at the 2019 Oxford workshop on Machine Learning for Weather and Climate, this paper also presents thoughts on medium-term goals to advance such use of AI, which include assuring that algorithms are trustworthy and interpretable, adherence to FAIR data practices to promote usability, and development of techniques that leverage our physical knowledge of the atmosphere. The coauthors propose several actionable items and have initiated one of those: a repository for datasets from various real weather and climate problems that can be addressed using AI. Five such datasets are presented and permanently archived, together with Jupyter notebooks to process them and assess the results in comparison with a baseline technique. The coauthors invite the readers to test their own algorithms in comparison with the baseline and to archive their results.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Machine learning for weather and climate modelling’.
Funding Information
  • Polar Science for Planet Earth programme at the British Antarctic Survey
  • Office of Naval Research (N00014-17-S-B001)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB/TRR 165)
  • US National Science Foundation (1852977)
  • NOAA Climate Variability and Predictability Program (NA18OAR4310405)

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