arXiv:2509.22359physics.ao-phcs.AI2025-09被引 5

AI气候模型预测未来气温时普遍偏冷,像在预测过去15-20年前的气候。

Forecasting the Future with Yesterday's Climate: Temperature Bias in AI Weather and Climate Models

  • 用历史数据训练的AI模型无法捕捉现代极端高温,导致未来气温预测整体偏低。
  • 预测2020-2025年气温时,模型表现类似15-20年前气候,东部美国甚至差30年。
  • 模型对极端高温的偏差最大,提示需改进训练数据以应对快速变化的气候。

基于人工智能的气象与气候模型虽快速普及,能提供媲美甚至超越传统动力模型的预报精度,但其核心挑战在于:仅用历史数据训练却要预测未来气候。本研究分析了三种模型在北半球冬季陆地气温上的偏差,包括FourCastNet V2 Small(FourCastNet)和Pangu Weather(Pangu)对2020–2025年的预测,以及Ai2 Climate Emulator version 2(ACE2)对1996–2010年的预测。这些时期均超出各自训练数据范围,且比多数训练数据更接近现代。结果发现,三者均存在显著冷偏差,预测温度相当于比实际晚15–20年,部分区域如美国东部甚至延迟20–30年。进一步分析显示,FourCastNet和Pangu的冷偏差在最热预测值中最强,表明其对现代极端高温的训练覆盖不足;而ACE2的偏差分布更均匀,但在气候变化最剧烈的区域、季节和温度分布区间最大。这凸显了仅依赖历史数据训练的局限性,警示未来气候预测需考虑此类系统性偏差。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

AI-based climate and weather models have rapidly gained popularity, providing faster forecasts with skill that can match or even surpass that of traditional dynamical models. Despite this success, these models face a key challenge: predicting future climates while being trained only with historical data. In this study, we investigate this issue by analyzing boreal winter land temperature biases in AI weather and climate models. We examine two weather models, FourCastNet V2 Small (FourCastNet) and Pangu Weather (Pangu), evaluating their predictions for 2020-2025 and Ai2 Climate Emulator version 2 (ACE2) for 1996-2010. These time periods lie outside of the respective models' training sets and are significantly more recent than the bulk of their training data, allowing us to assess how well the models generalize to new, i.e. more modern, conditions. We find that all three models produce cold-biased mean temperatures, resembling climates from 15-20 years earlier than the period they are predicting. In some regions, like the Eastern U.S., the predictions resemble climates from as much as 20-30 years earlier. Further analysis shows that FourCastNet's and Pangu's cold bias is strongest in the hottest predicted temperatures, indicating limited training exposure to modern extreme heat events. In contrast, ACE2's bias is more evenly distributed but largest in regions, seasons, and parts of the temperature distribution where climate change has been most pronounced. These findings underscore the challenge of training AI models exclusively on historical data and highlight the need to account for such biases when applying them to future climate prediction.

气候预测AI模型偏差分析

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