arXiv:2512.20177cs.LGphysics.comp-ph2025-12

融合物理模型与机器学习,提升农作物产量预测精度与效率。

NeuralCrop: Combining physics and machine learning for improved crop yield projections

  • 用可微分混合架构结合过程模型与数据驱动方法。
  • 在欧洲小麦区和美国玉米带准确预测年际产量波动,干旱下表现更优。
  • 计算效率比传统模型高数个数量级,适合长期气候模拟。

全球网格化作物模型(GGCMs)对评估气候变化对农业生产力的影响及粮食安全风险至关重要。尽管经过多年发展,现有先进GGCM仍存在因过程表征不完善导致的显著不确定性。近年来,基于观测数据训练的机器学习方法提供了替代方案,但其性能未超越传统GGCM,且因分布外泛化能力差,难以用于气候变化下的产量预测。本文提出NeuralCrop,一种可微分的混合型GGCM,整合先进过程模型显式解析关键过程,同时引入数据驱动的机器学习组件。NeuralCrop先拟合竞争性GGCM,再在观测数据上微调。结果表明,其在站点尺度和大尺度模拟中均达到与先进GGCM相当的预测精度;能准确捕捉欧洲小麦区和美国玉米带的年际产量变异,尤其在干旱极端条件下异常值再现能力显著提升。对于大规模长期模拟,该方法计算效率提升数个数量级。研究表明,端到端混合建模为气候变化与极端天气频发背景下的粮食风险评估提供了更可靠的产量预测工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Global gridded crop models (GGCMs) are crucial to project the impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity and assess associated risks for food security. Despite decades of development, state-of-the-art GGCMs retain substantial uncertainties stemming from process representations. Recently, machine learning approaches trained on observational data provide alternatives in crop yield projections. However, these models have not demonstrated improved performance over traditional GGCMs and are not suitable for projecting crop yields under a changing climate due to their poor out-of-distribution generalization. Here we introduce NeuralCrop, a differentiable hybrid GGCM that combines the strengths of an advanced process-based GGCM, resolving important processes explicitly, with data-driven machine learning components. NeuralCrop is first trained to emulate a competitive GGCM before it is fine-tuned on observational data. We show that NeuralCrop produces projections with accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art GGCMs across site-level and large-scale crop simulations. NeuralCrop can accurately project the interannual yield variability in European wheat regions and the US Corn Belt. Capturing yield anomalies is essential for developing adaptation strategies in the context of climate change. NeuralCrop can more accurately reproduce yield anomalies across various climatic conditions, with particularly notable improvements under drought extremes. For large-scale, long-term simulations, our approach is orders of magnitude more computationally efficient. Our results show that end-to-end hybrid crop modelling offers more reliable yield projections that are essential for food risk assessments under climate change and intensifying extreme weather events.

作物模拟混合建模机器学习气候适应

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