arXiv:2609.40043v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Photospheric vector magnetic fields are foundational to modeling, understanding, and forecasting solar activity. These data are usually produced by i...
By Ruoyu Wang (NYU), David Fouhey (NYU)
SolarBench is an open global benchmark for image-based solar nowcasting that consolidates over six million sky and satellite images from 11 sites across a decade, paired with irradiance, PV output, and atmospheric data. The benchmark includes a toolbox for reproducible data access, processing, model development, and evaluation. Using SolarBench, the authors benchmark representative models, uncover a gap between average forecasting accuracy and the capture of rapid solar fluctuations, quantify predictability across cloud regimes, and demonstrate data‑efficient adaptation to new PV systems.
By Yuhao Nie, Stephen Campbell, Quentin Paletta, Liwenbo Zhang, Tao Jing, Samer Chaaraoui, Jonathan Giezendanner, Andea Scott, Tao Sun, Cong Feng, Max Aragon, Jacques Camier, Adam Jensen, Florian Kotthoff, Yuexing Yang, Yang Ming, Mengying Li, Stefanie Meilinger, Yupeng Wu, Adam Brandt, Sherrie Wang
arXiv:2608. 11254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate solar irradiance forecasting is essential for the reliable integration of photovoltaic power into modern electricity grids.
By Yann Fabel, Bijan Nouri, Milon Miah, Niklas Blum, Luis F. Zarzalejo, Julia Kowalski, Robert Pitz-Paal
PISCES is a physics‑informed convolutional autoencoder designed to detect solar‑wind transients for space‑weather early warning. Trained on OMNI solar‑wind data without catalog labels, its loss incorporates magnetic field consistency, temperature‑velocity relations, the Parker spiral angle, and temporal smoothness penalties. During inference, PISCES decomposes the anomaly score into magnetic, plasma, physics‑relation, and residual components, enabling alarms that can precede observed sudden commencements and positive sudden impulses.
By Kevin Lee, Alison J. March
arXiv:2607. 22704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nuclear fusion has made significant progress in recent years and is expected to become one of the most important pathways to addressing global energy challenges.
By Xiao Wang, Hao Si, Qiang Chen, Yu-Xiang Zhang, Beihe Zhang, Jianhua Yang, Qingquan Yang, Dengdi Sun, Wanli Lyu, Guosheng Xu, Jin Tang
arXiv:2411. 10921v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate forecasts of distributed solar generation are necessary to maintain grid stability amid the increased uptake of distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
By Maneesha Perera, Julian De Hoog, Kasun Bandara, Hansani Weeratunge, Saman Halgamuge
The paper presents a physics-informed neural network (PINN) that accelerates multilayer spectral inversion (MLSI) of solar chromospheric lines Hα 6562.8 Å and Ca II 8542.1 Å. The PINN predicts MLSI parameters from observed line profiles and uses a differentiable forward model to synthesize spectra, trained in two stages—first with spectral reconstruction loss, then fine‑tuned with conventional MLSI results on a single reference image. Applied to Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph data, the method reproduces key spatial structures and achieves a 12–60× speedup, processing a raster in 5–15 s versus 3–5 min for traditional MLSI.
By Ziyang Zhang, Qin Li, Vasyl B. Yurchyshyn, Kangwoo Yi, Haimin Wang, Wenda Cao, Bo Shen
The paper introduces SolCloudLLM, a large language model–based framework that fuses sky‑image patches with time‑series data through bidirectional multimodal fusion for short‑term solar forecasting. Experiments on the SIRTA and SKIPP'D datasets show that SolCloudLLM outperforms existing baselines, achieving up to a 25.4% reduction in mean squared error, especially under cloudy conditions and in few‑shot scenarios.
By Ken Chen, Maneesha Perera, Wei Wang, Sachith Seneviratne, Hansani Weeratunge, Saman Halgamuge
arXiv:2606. 19539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Solar energetic particle (SEP) events have attracted increasing attention due to their significant radiation hazards for aviation, spacecraft electronics, and human missions beyond Earth's magnetosphere.
By Spiridon Kasapis, Pouya Hosseinzadeh, Kathryn Whitman, Ricky Egeland, Manolis Georgoulis, Angelos Vourlidas, Athanasios Papaioannou, Eleni Lavasa, Anastasios Anastasiadis, Giorgos Giannopoulos, Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, Bala Poduval, Irina N. Kitiashvili, Alexander G. Kosovichev, Viacheslav Sadykov, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Tate T. Hutchins, Hameedullah A. Farooki, Manuel E. Cuesta, Leng Y. Khoo, Sungmin Pak, Robert Czarnota, Jamie S. Rankin, Jamey Szalay, Mitchell M. Shen, Georgios Livadiotis, Zigong Xu, David J. McComas, Nikolaos Sarlis, Dionissios Hristopulos, Arik Posner, Alec J. Engell, Mohammed AbuBakr Ali, Ali G. A. Abdelkawy, Abdelrazek M. K. Shaltout, M. M. Beheary, Christina O. Lee, Sigiava Aminalragia-Giamini, Constantinos Papadimitriou, Ingmar Sandberg, Savvas Raptis, Shah Muhammad Hamdi, Monica Laurenza, Mirko Stumpo, Sumanth A. Rotti, India Jackson, Aatiya Ali, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Nathan Schwadron, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Maher A. Dayeh, Gelu M. Nita, Patrick M. O'Keefe, Chun Jie Chong, Paul Kosovich, Russell D. Marroquin, Berkay Aydin, Petrus C. Martens, Lulu Zhao, Yang Chen, Yian Yu, Monica G. Bobra, Ward Manchester, Tamas Gombosi, Ming Zhang, Jesse Torres, Philip K. Chan, Mohamed Nedal, Kamen Kozarev, Peijin Zhang, Kimberly Moreland, Hazel M. Bain, Samuel Hart, Michael J. Starkey, Alan G. Ling, Simone Benella
The study presents a spatially aware deep learning framework that retrieves all‑sky tropospheric temperature and humidity profiles from the Meteosat Third Generation Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) without relying on numerical weather prediction background fields. Using a Residual U‑Net trained on 14 months of collocated FCI observations and CERRA reanalysis data, the model achieves temperature biases below 0.4 K and relative humidity standard deviations between 12–20 %, with modest performance degradation under cloud cover. Ablation and feature‑sensitivity analyses confirm that incorporating spatial context across all 16 FCI channels, including visible and near‑infrared bands, improves retrieval accuracy, especially beneath cloud tops.
By Alejandro Salgueiro, Johannes Rausch, Julie Th\'er\`ese Villinger, Angela Meyer
arXiv:2606. 28446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Light curves describe temporal variations in the brightness of celestial objects.
By Yicheng Rui
arXiv:2606. 08563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While global data-driven models excel at predicting continuous atmospheric variables, three-dimensional hydrometeor forecasting remains challenging due to the zero-inflated, long-tailed distributions of these variables.
By Dandan Chen, Yaqiang Wang