Summary of Advancing Data-driven Weather Forecasting: Time-sliding Data Augmentation Of Era5, by Minjong Cheon et al.
Advancing Data-driven Weather Forecasting: Time-Sliding Data Augmentation of ERA5
by Minjong Cheon, Daehyun Kang, Yo-Hwan Choi, Seon-Yu Kang
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research introduces a novel strategy that deviates from traditional high-resolution data, instead utilizing low-resolution data (2.5 degrees) for global weather prediction and climate data analysis. The study focuses on evaluating data-driven weather prediction (DDWP) frameworks, addressing sample size adequacy, structural improvements to the model, and the ability of climate data to represent current climatic trends. By using the Adaptive Fourier Neural Operator (AFNO) model via FourCastNet and a proposed time-sliding method to inflate the dataset of the ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5), this paper improves on conventional approaches by adding more variables and a novel approach to data augmentation and processing. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study shows that using lower-resolution data can actually be better for predicting atmospheric conditions than higher-resolution data. The researchers used a new model called AFNO, which is really good at analyzing climate trends. They also came up with a way to make the dataset bigger by adding more variables. This made their predictions even more accurate. The study found that low-resolution data can be just as good as high-resolution data for predicting weather and understanding climate change. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Data augmentation
