arXiv:2608.30795physics.ao-phcs.LG2026-08

让端到端天气模型具备不确定性感知能力,区分观测与模型带来的误差。

Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End AI Weather Forecasting: Disentangling Observation and Model Contributions

论文配图:Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End AI Weather Forecasting: Disentangling Observation and Model Contributions
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  • 在编码器和处理器中分别加入随机噪声和蒙特卡洛丢弃,分离观测与模型不确定性。
  • 概率微调使平均预报精度提升4.2%,在所有预报时段优于确定性模型的CRPS。
  • 可分解各组件贡献,适合需要透明决策的气象数字孪生应用。

端到端天气预报系统直接从原始地球观测数据生成全球网格和站点预报,取代传统数值天气预报流程,成本仅为后者的一小部分。这些系统为确定性输出,不提供不确定性信息。本文通过在每个组件添加随机机制,使Aardvark Weather模型具备概率能力:在观测编码器引入学习的、依赖输入的噪声以捕捉观测系统带来的偶然不确定性(aleatoric),在处理器使用蒙特卡洛丢弃捕捉模型对动力学理解的主观不确定性(epistemic)。由此产生的嵌套集成通过全方差分解法将预报发散归因于两个来源,并通过剔除观测流进行交叉验证。概率微调使平均预报性能提升4.2%(跨变量与预报时效)。该集成在中期预报范围(如与ERA5对比)校准良好(散布-技能比0.98),站点均方根误差仅比确定性模型高2.4%,但在所有预报时段均优于其CRPS表现,且接近欧洲中期天气预报中心(ECMWF)运行系统的水平。编码器分支表现出观测驱动的不确定性特征。组件级不确定性归因使端到端预报更具可解释性,是迈向大气观测驱动数字孪生的重要一步。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

End-to-end weather forecasting systems produce skillful global gridded and station forecasts directly from raw Earth observations, replacing the numerical weather prediction pipeline, including data assimilation, at a fraction of its cost. These systems are deterministic and issue no uncertainty. Here we render the Aardvark Weather model probabilistic by attaching one stochastic mechanism to each component: learned, input-dependent noise at the observation encoder, capturing aleatoric uncertainty inherited from the observing system, and Monte Carlo dropout in the processor, capturing epistemic uncertainty in the learned dynamics. The resulting nested ensemble attributes forecast spread to the two sources through a law-of-total-variance decomposition, cross-checked by withholding observation streams. Probabilistic finetuning significantly improves the mean forecast, by 4.2% on average across variables and lead times. The ensemble is calibrated against ERA5 through the medium range (spread-skill ratio 0.98), keeps station RMSE within 2.4% of the deterministic model while beating it in CRPS at every lead time, and trails the operational ECMWF ensemble. The encoder branch behaves as observation-driven uncertainty. Component-attributed uncertainty makes end-to-end forecasts more transparent, a step toward observation-driven digital twins of the atmosphere.

天气预报不确定性端到端数字孪生

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