Tianmu-TC is a physics‑constraints generative AI framework designed for global tropical cyclone forecasting. Trained on Western North Pacific data, it produces controllable outputs with reduced uncertainty, outperforming both deterministic and ensemble meteorological AI models as well as the ECMWF NWP system across global ocean basins. The model also demonstrates strong performance in challenging scenarios such as data sparsity, anomaly tracks, rapid intensification, and weakening, while maintaining significantly lower computational cost.
By Shiqi Zhang, Pan Mu, Cheng Huang, Hanting Yan, Yuchao Zhu, Jinglin Zhang, Shengyong Chen, Shoujuan Shu, Cong Bai
arXiv:2609.25505v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Rapid intensification (RI) remains one of the most consequential and difficult aspects of tropical cyclone (TC) forecasting. Although full-physics nu...
By Shijie Xiao, Jonathan Lin, Thomas Ehrmann, Ali Sarhadi
We’re launching Weather Lab, featuring our experimental cyclone predictions, and we’re partnering with the U. S.
arXiv:2607. 05100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven models now rival numerical weather prediction in the medium range, but extending them to sub-seasonal lead times raises challenges absent at shorter horizons.
By Jakob Schloer, Steffen Tietsche, Christopher D. Roberts, Lorenzo Zampieri, Simon Lang, Gert Mertes, Gareth Jones, Matthew Chantry, Frederic Vitart
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.
By Zhe Wang, Sijie Chen, Yiming Luo, Daehyun Kim, Chien-Yi Chang