不用特殊网格也能长期精准预测天气,新模型突破年尺度预报瓶颈
AtmosMJ: Revisiting Gating Mechanism for AI Weather Forecasting Beyond the Year Scale
- 直接在标准经纬网格上训练,通过自适应门控融合机制抑制误差累积
- 实现约500天稳定预报,10天精度媲美Pangu-Weather和GraphCast
- 仅需5.7天训练时间(V100),适合资源有限的研究团队使用
大型气象模型(LWMs)推动了数据驱动天气预报的变革,许多模型在中短期预报中已超越传统数值系统。然而,实现数周以上稳定的自回归预报仍是重大挑战。现有先进模型如SFNO和DLWP-HPX依赖球谐或HEALPix等非标准空间域转换,普遍认为此类表示对物理一致性和长期稳定性至关重要。本文挑战这一假设,探索是否可在标准纬经度网格上实现同等长周期性能。我们提出AtmosMJ,一种直接处理ERA5数据的深度卷积网络,无需球面重映射。其稳定性源于新型门控残差融合(GRF)机制,可自适应调节特征更新以防止递归模拟中的误差积累。实验表明,AtmosMJ能生成约500天稳定且物理合理的预报。定量评估显示,其10天预报精度与Pangu-Weather、GraphCast等模型相当,同时仅需5.7天训练时间(V100 GPU)。结果表明,高效架构设计而非非标准数据表示,是实现稳定、计算高效长周期天气预测的关键。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The advent of Large Weather Models (LWMs) has marked a turning point in data-driven forecasting, with many models now outperforming traditional numerical systems in the medium range. However, achieving stable, long-range autoregressive forecasts beyond a few weeks remains a significant challenge. Prevailing state-of-the-art models that achieve year-long stability, such as SFNO and DLWP-HPX, have relied on transforming input data onto non-standard spatial domains like spherical harmonics or HEALPix meshes. This has led to the prevailing assumption that such representations are necessary to enforce physical consistency and long-term stability. This paper challenges that assumption by investigating whether comparable long-range performance can be achieved on the standard latitude-longitude grid. We introduce AtmosMJ, a deep convolutional network that operates directly on ERA5 data without any spherical remapping. The model's stability is enabled by a novel Gated Residual Fusion (GRF) mechanism, which adaptively moderates feature updates to prevent error accumulation over long recursive simulations. Our results demonstrate that AtmosMJ produces stable and physically plausible forecasts for about 500 days. In quantitative evaluations, it achieves competitive 10-day forecast accuracy against models like Pangu-Weather and GraphCast, all while requiring a remarkably low training budget of 5.7 days on a V100 GPU. Our findings suggest that efficient architectural design, rather than non-standard data representation, can be the key to unlocking stable and computationally efficient long-range weather prediction.
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