用机器学习修正气象预报偏差,显著提升2-6周预测准确率。
Enhancing AI and Dynamical Subseasonal Forecasts with Probabilistic Bias Correction
- 基于历史概率预报数据,训练模型自动校正系统性误差。
- 在91%~98%的气象目标上提升预报精度,双倍增强AI系统性能。
- 适合气象预报、农业与应急管理领域,助力极端天气应对。
决策者依赖天气预报进行农耕、防火、水资源与能源调配及极端天气应对。当前,物理驱动的动力模型与数据驱动的人工智能(AI)模型已使两周内预报精度大幅提升。然而,在次季节尺度(2至6周前)预报性能急剧下降,原因包括误差累积、系统性偏差及大气混沌特性。为此,我们提出概率偏差校正(PBC)框架,通过学习历史概率预报数据,显著减少系统性误差。应用于欧洲中期天气预报中心(ECMWF)的领先动力模型与AI预报系统时,PBC使AI系统的次季节预报技能翻倍,并在91%的压力、92%的温度、98%的降水目标上改进了业务化偏差校正动力模型的表现。该方法专为业务部署设计,在ECMWF 2025实时预报竞赛中,其全球预报在所有变量和预报时效上均获第一,超越六大气象中心动力模型、国际动力多模型集合、ECMWF AI系统及全球34支团队的预报系统。概率技能提升可更精准预测极端事件,有望改善农业规划、能源管理及脆弱社区的防灾准备。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Decision-makers rely on weather forecasts to plant crops, manage wildfires, allocate water and energy, and prepare for weather extremes. Today, such forecasts enjoy unprecedented accuracy out to two weeks thanks to steady advances in physics-based dynamical models and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) models. However, model skill drops precipitously at subseasonal timescales (2 - 6 weeks ahead), due to compounding errors, systemic model biases, and the chaotic nature of the atmosphere. To counter this degradation, we introduce probabilistic bias correction (PBC), a machine learning framework that substantially reduces systematic error by learning to correct historical probabilistic forecasts. When applied to the leading dynamical and AI models from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), PBC doubles the modest subseasonal skill of the AI Forecasting System and improves the skill of the operationally-debiased dynamical model for 91% of pressure, 92% of temperature, and 98% of precipitation targets. We designed PBC for operational deployment, and, in ECMWF's 2025 real-time forecasting competition, its global forecasts placed first for all weather variables and lead times, outperforming the dynamical models from six operational forecasting centers, an international dynamical multi-model ensemble, ECMWF's AI Forecasting System, and the forecasting systems of 34 teams worldwide. These probabilistic skill gains translate into more accurate prediction of extreme events and have the potential to improve agricultural planning, energy management, and disaster preparedness in vulnerable communities.
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