arXiv:2608. 09775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate air quality forecasting is essential for public health and urban environmental management, but remains challenging because pollutant channels differ in periodicity and distribution drift, while their concentration trajectories contain both multi-scale dependencies and rapid changes.
By Fan Yang, Nan Chen, Yijie Dong, Yuchen Zhang, Wei Zhang
We present Varda-single-1.0, a medium-range data-driven weather prediction system built for the Alpine domain. It provides hourly deterministic regional forecasts on a mesh of 1 km resolution and glob...
arXiv:2610.00370v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Station weather forecasting is fundamentally shaped by both complex spatial dependencies across stations and strong physical coupling among weather v...
By Rongwen Li, Xiao Wang, Mingyang Wang, Hongwu Liu, Changjian Chen, Zhuo Tang, Kenli Li
Varda‑single‑1.0 is a medium‑range, data‑driven weather prediction system designed for Switzerland’s Alpine region, delivering hourly deterministic forecasts at 1 km resolution and global forecasts at 31 km. It uses two independently trained stretched‑grid Graph Transformer models—an autoregressive forecaster and a temporal downscaler—trained through a curriculum that starts with ERA5 reanalysis, proceeds to a 20‑year regional reanalysis, and ends with fine‑tuning on operational analyses. Over a one‑year verification, Varda‑single matches or surpasses MeteoSwiss’s numerical weather prediction baselines for most key metrics, though it underestimates local wind peaks and produces smoother convective precipitation fields.
whyItMatters":"The system demonstrates that high‑resolution machine‑learning models can rival traditional numerical weather prediction in complex terrain, offering a complementary tool for operational forecasting and research."
By Alberto Pennino, Francesco Zanetta, Michele Cattaneo, Claire Merker, Radi Radev, Jonas Bhend, Louis Frey, Hugues de Laroussilhe, Oph\'elia Miralles, Carlos Osuna, Daniele Nerini, Andreas Pauling, Daniel Hupp, Ulrich Hamann, Mary McGlohon, Marti Bosch, Luca Lanzilao, Marco Arpagaus, Lukas Jansing, Daniel Leuenberger, Mark A. Liniger, Katrin Ehlert, Matthew Chantry, H\aa{}vard Homleid Haugen, Gert Mertes, Ana Prieto Nemesio, Mario Santa Cruz, Jasper Wijnands, Gabriel Moldovan, Harrison Cook, Oliver Fuhrer
This study presents a new mobile‑sensing dataset from Surat, India, capturing PM2.5 concentrations along with meteorological and land‑use variables. The authors model the data as a graph using two node‑definition strategies—uniform segmentation and DBSCAN clustering—and introduce a Spatially Attentive Graph Neural Network (SA‑GNN) that combines cluster‑specific GRUs with a Graph Attention Network to forecast fine‑grained, short‑term PM2.5 levels. SA‑GNN outperforms traditional LSTM, RNN, GRU, and ANN baselines, achieving an R² of 0.95, RMSE of 6.8, and MAE of 4.2 µg/m³ on the dataset.
By Om Chiddarwar, Priyanka Mandal, Praveen Kumar Chandaliya, Shriniwas Arkatkar
arXiv:2511. 23043v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a probabilistic data-driven weather model providing ensembles of high spatial resolution realizations of 87 variables at arbitrary ensemble size and forecast length.
By Even Marius Nordhagen, H{\aa}vard Homleid Haugen, Magnus Sikora Ingstad, Aram Farhad Shafiq Salihi, Thomas Nils Nipen, Ivar Ambj{\o}rn Seierstad, Inger-Lise Frogner, Mariana Clare, Simon Lang, Matthew Chantry, Peter Dueben, J{\o}rn Kristiansen