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Integrating Ensemble Kalman Filter with AI-based Weather Prediction Model ClimaX

(2407.17781)
Published Jul 25, 2024 in cs.LG and stat.AP

Abstract

AI-based weather prediction research is growing rapidly and has shown to be competitive with the advanced dynamic numerical weather prediction models. However, research combining AI-based weather prediction models with data assimilation remains limited partially because long-term sequential data assimilation cycles are required to evaluate data assimilation systems. This study explores integrating the local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF) with an AI-based weather prediction model ClimaX. Our experiments demonstrated that the ensemble data assimilation cycled stably for the AI-based weather prediction model using covariance inflation and localization techniques inside the LETKF. While ClimaX showed some limitations in capturing flow-dependent error covariance compared to dynamical models, the AI-based ensemble forecasts provided reasonable and beneficial error covariance in sparsely observed regions. These findings highlight the potential of AI models in weather forecasting and the importance of physical consistency and accurate error growth representation in improving ensemble data assimilation.

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