Unresolved atmospheric processes can introduce history dependence beyond the short input windows used by many weather forecasting models. We introduce GraphCast--Mamba, which augments a frozen, pretra...
arXiv:2504. 20238v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Atmospheric predictability research has long held that rapid error growth at small spatial scales imposes an intrinsic limit of roughly two weeks on deterministic weather forecast skill.
arXiv:2608. 05054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate the transferability of Earth weather foundation models to planetary atmospheres by adapting the GraphCast graph neural weather forecasting model to Mars.
arXiv:2606. 06348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paradigm of global weather forecasting is rapidly shifting with the emergence of Machine Learning Weather Prediction models (MLWP).
The paradigm of global weather forecasting is rapidly shifting with the emergence of Machine Learning Weather Prediction models (MLWP). While these data-driven architectures demonstrate remarkable global skill, regional benchmarks in the Global South remain scarce, leaving their efficacy in complex, highly convective environments largely unverified.
The paper presents Laxmi, a retrained version of the AIFS weather model that uses satellite-based precipitation observations instead of ERA5 reanalysis data. Laxmi achieves a 19% improvement in global probabilistic accuracy, reduces drizzle overprediction by 33%, and boosts the 95th percentile Brier skill score by 57%. In a case study of 10 Indian tropical storms, Laxmi accurately forecasted 150 mm event-total precipitation in 7 events, outperforming both the original AIFS and the leading physical model IFS.
arXiv:2610.14863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven weather forecasting models are commonly trained on ERA5, yet operational deployment must use timely initial states from physics-based numer...
The study evaluates three machine‑learning weather‑prediction models—FourCastNet3, GraphCast, and the ECMWF High‑Resolution Forecast—for wind‑speed forecasting in Northern Norway using multi‑year station data. Results show the ECMWF model slightly outperforms the ML models (RMSE 2.89 m s⁻¹ vs. 2.96 m s⁻¹ for FourCastNet3 and 2.94 m s⁻¹ for GraphCast), yet all models maintain comparable performance beyond their training periods and underestimate strong winds. FourCastNet3 performs best under high‑wind conditions, indicating ML models are competitive with traditional numerical weather prediction but still need improvement for complex terrain.
arXiv:2608. 09286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Global medium-range weather forecasting requires modeling structured yet state-dependent interactions among heterogeneous atmospheric fields.
TC-Next is a multimodal deep learning model that forecasts tropical cyclone track and intensity for 6‑24 hour lead times by combining atmospheric forecast fields from a foundation model with GridSat infrared satellite imagery. Trained solely on GraphCast forecasts for the Western Pacific, it reduces track error by 15‑44% and intensity error by a factor of 3‑6 compared to the rule‑based tracker TempestExtremes, and maintains superior performance when applied zero‑shot to other forecast systems such as Pangu‑Weather, IFS HRES, and WeatherNext Cyclones. Ablation studies confirm that incorporating the additional satellite modality consistently improves tracking accuracy at all lead times and enhances intensity predictions, especially at longer horizons.
KNOU‑Flood extends the open AIFL recipe for global streamflow forecasting by retaining a single‑layer LSTM and two‑stage transfer learning while adding a longer 424‑day input window, lead‑aware forecast inputs, and GraphCast as an additional forecast source. The model also introduces a latent‑noise ensemble trained with the fair CRPS, achieving a median KGE′ of 0.65 at lead time 1 and 0.48 at lead time 10 across 2,099 test basins, outperforming AIFL and a 1,024‑unit baseline. The probabilistic head, GraphCast channels, longer window, and mixed fine‑tuning collectively reduce lead‑time decay, improve calibration, and enhance detection of multi‑year floods.
arXiv:2606. 19026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecast errors in high-resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems are often linked to unresolved planetary boundary layer (PBL) processes, convection, terrain-induced circulations, and other vertically structured atmospheric phenomena.