用扩散模型生成海况,实现快速概率预报。
Sampling sea state using a diffusion model

- 基于5天风场历史,用扩散模型直接采样海况分布。
- 比传统谱模型快得多,对波高等变量预测准确且集合发散合理。
- 可扩展到斯托克斯漂移等复杂量,适合气候耦合场景。
海况预测对海上作业和地球系统模拟至关重要,但现有谱波模型计算成本高,难以用于在线气候模拟或概率预测。尽管深度学习在气象预报中表现优异,现有基于AI的波浪模型多为确定性且仅限于显著波高等整体变量,概率海况估计仍待探索。本文提出一种基于扩散的全局海况生成模型,以5天全球风强迫作为条件输入,直接采样复杂的海况条件分布,无需自回归时间步进。与以往方法不同,该框架自然拓展至波谱相关变量及衍生量(如斯托克斯漂移、均方斜率)。模型在30年全球WAVEWATCH-III历史数据上训练,相比数值谱模型实现显著加速,同时在整体变量上保持良好预测能力与校准的集合发散。结果表明,基于扩散的海况采样为概率波浪预报和海况信息高效融入地球系统模型提供了可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Sea state prediction is essential for operational maritime applications and coupled earth system modeling, yet current spectral wave models remain computationally prohibitive for many use cases, including online coupling to climate simulations and making probabilistic (ensemble-based) predictions. While deep learning has recently demonstrated strong performance in weather forecasting, existing AI-based wave models are predominantly deterministic and largely limited to bulk variables such as significant wave height, leaving probabilistic sea state estimation largely unexplored. In this work, we propose a diffusion-based generative model for global sea state estimation that conditions on a relatively long history (5 days) of global wind forcing. This generative model directly samples the complex conditional distribution of sea state without autoregressive time-stepping. Unlike prior approaches, our framework naturally extends beyond bulk variables to estimate partition-related variables and derived quantities, such as Stokes drift and mean square slope. Trained on a 30-year global WAVEWATCH-III hindcast, the model achieves substantial computational acceleration compared with numerical spectral models while delivering skillful predictions and a calibrated ensemble spread for the bulk variables. Our results suggest that diffusion-based sea state sampling offers a promising path toward probabilistic wave forecasting and efficient coupling of sea state information into broader earth system models.
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