用数据驱动模型替代传统天气模型,提升飓风预报精度与稳定性。
Weakly-Constrained 4D Var for Downscaling with Uncertainty using Data-Driven Surrogate Models
- 用FourCastNet替代传统气象模型,结合弱约束4D变分法稳定预测
- 在ERA5数据上比EnKF和未稳定模型误差更低,不确定性更可控
- 适合需要高精度、可量化不确定性的气象预测任务
动态降尺度通常依赖数值天气预报(NWP)求解器将粗分辨率数据细化至更高空间分辨率。数据驱动模型如FourCastNet已成为传统NWP的有力替代方案,训练后可在数秒内完成预测,速度比经典NWP快数千倍。然而,随着预报时效延长,这些模型易出现发散,偏离真实情况。本文提出采用数据同化方法稳定其在降尺度任务中的表现。数据同化融合三类信息:基于偏微分方程的不完美计算模型、带有噪声的观测数据,以及反映不确定性的先验。本研究中,动态降尺度时以FourCastNet替代计算昂贵的PDE-based NWP模型,构建“弱约束4D变分框架”,并考虑隐含模型误差。我们在飓风追踪问题上验证了该方法的有效性;此外,4DVar框架天然支持不确定性表达与量化。基于ERA5数据的实验表明,该方法在预测精度与不确定性刻画方面均优于集成卡尔曼滤波(EnKF)和未稳定化的FourCastNet模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Dynamic downscaling typically involves using numerical weather prediction (NWP) solvers to refine coarse data to higher spatial resolutions. Data-driven models such as FourCastNet have emerged as a promising alternative to the traditional NWP models for forecasting. Once these models are trained, they are capable of delivering forecasts in a few seconds, thousands of times faster compared to classical NWP models. However, as the lead times, and, therefore, their forecast window, increase, these models show instability in that they tend to diverge from reality. In this paper, we propose to use data assimilation approaches to stabilize them when used for downscaling tasks. Data assimilation uses information from three different sources, namely an imperfect computational model based on partial differential equations (PDE), from noisy observations, and from an uncertainty-reflecting prior. In this work, when carrying out dynamic downscaling, we replace the computationally expensive PDE-based NWP models with FourCastNet in a ``weak-constrained 4DVar framework" that accounts for the implied model errors. We demonstrate the efficacy of this approach for a hurricane-tracking problem; moreover, the 4DVar framework naturally allows the expression and quantification of uncertainty. We demonstrate, using ERA5 data, that our approach performs better than the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) and the unstabilized FourCastNet model, both in terms of forecast accuracy and forecast uncertainty.
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