用物理定律约束深度学习,让气象数据超分辨率更可信。
Physics-Informed Super-Resolution of Atmospheric Data

- 引入大气原始方程作为多尺度物理约束,提升重建精度
- 在ERA5等数据集上,极端天气检测准确率显著提升
- 适合气候研究、灾害预警等需高可信度数据的场景
全球变暖导致极端天气频发且强度加剧,其可靠检测与预报愈发重要。然而,大气观测的空间分辨率不足,促使通过机器学习实现数据降尺度以重构高分辨率数据。当前该任务被建模为超分辨率(SR)问题,具备高效性,但尚不明确超分辨率结果是否仍满足地球系统的基本物理规律,影响其在气候应用中的可信度。本文提出物理信息超分辨率(PISR)方法,基于原始方程构建多尺度物理约束目标,使输出自然符合变量间的物理关系。同时设计归一化物理一致性(NPC)指标衡量结果的物理合理性。在ERA5、CERRA和COSMO数据集上的实验表明,PISR显著提升重建保真度、物理一致性及极端事件(如热浪、强风)的下游检测能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the context of global warming, extreme events have become more frequent and intense, making their trustworthy detection and forecasting more important than ever. Yet, atmospheric observations lack sufficient spatial resolution, motivating atmospheric data downscaling as a way to reconstruct high-resolution data from coarse observations. This task is now being formulated as a super-resolution (SR) problem with machine learning methods featuring high efficiency. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether the super-resolved atmospheric data still satisfies fundamental physics governing the Earth system, raising concerns about their trustworthiness in climate-related applications. In this work, we address this challenge by constraining SR models to respect hydrostatic primitive equations that represent multivariate atmospheric physics. First, we propose a Physics-Informed Super-Resolution (PISR) method involving multi-scale physics-informed objectives based on primitive equations. PISR favors the SR outputs to respect these equations and therefore naturally encodes inter-variable relationships. In addition, we propose a metric called Normalized Physical Consistency (NPC) derived from said primitive equations to measure the physical consistency of super-resolved data. Experiments on ERA5, CERRA, and COSMO demonstrate that PISR enhances the reconstruction fidelity by improving physical consistency, SR accuracy, and downstream detection of extreme events, as demonstrated by case studies in heatwaves and extreme winds.
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