Advancing Parsimonious Deep Learning Weather Prediction Using the HEALPix Mesh

IF 4.4 2区 地球科学 Q1 METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI:10.1029/2023MS004021
Matthias Karlbauer, Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay, Dale R. Durran, Raul A. Moreno, Thorsten Kurth, Boris Bonev, Noah Brenowitz, Martin V. Butz
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We present a parsimonious deep learning weather prediction model to forecast seven atmospheric variables with 3-hr time resolution for up to 1-year lead times on a 110-km global mesh using the Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization (HEALPix). In comparison to state-of-the-art (SOTA) machine learning (ML) weather forecast models, such as Pangu-Weather and GraphCast, our DLWP-HPX model uses coarser resolution and far fewer prognostic variables. Yet, at 1-week lead times, its skill is only about 1 day behind both SOTA ML forecast models and the SOTA numerical weather prediction model from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. We report several improvements in model design, including switching from the cubed sphere to the HEALPix mesh, inverting the channel depth of the U-Net, and introducing gated recurrent units (GRU) on each level of the U-Net hierarchy. The consistent east-west orientation of all cells on the HEALPix mesh facilitates the development of location-invariant convolution kernels that successfully propagate weather patterns across the globe without requiring separate kernels for the polar and equatorial faces of the cube sphere. Without any loss of spectral power after the first 2 days, the model can be unrolled autoregressively for hundreds of steps into the future to generate realistic states of the atmosphere that respect seasonal trends, as showcased in 1-year simulations.

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利用 HEALPix 网格推进准深度学习天气预测
我们提出了一种简洁的深度学习天气预报模型,利用层次等面积等纬度像素化(HEALPix)技术,在 110 千米的全球网格上以 3 小时的时间分辨率预报七个大气变量,预报周期最长可达 1 年。与最先进的(SOTA)机器学习(ML)天气预报模式(如盘古天气和 GraphCast)相比,我们的 DLWP-HPX 模式使用更粗糙的分辨率和更少的预报变量。然而,在 1 周的准备时间内,其技能仅比 SOTA ML 预报模式和欧洲中期天气预报中心的 SOTA 数值天气预报模式落后 1 天左右。我们报告了模型设计方面的几项改进,包括从立方球形网格转换到 HEALPix 网格,反转 U-Net 的通道深度,以及在 U-Net 层次结构的每一级引入门控循环单元(GRU)。HEALPix 网格上所有单元的东西方向一致,这有利于开发位置不变的卷积核,从而成功地将天气模式传播到全球各地,而无需为立方体球体的极地和赤道面分别建立核。在头两天之后,该模型的频谱功率不会有任何损失,可以自回归方式向未来展开数百步,生成尊重季节趋势的真实大气状态,这在 1 年模拟中得到了展示。
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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES-
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