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Research records · 6

PerspectiveNature CommunicationsCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Gustau Camps-Valls · Alberto Carrassi · Francisco de Melo Viríssimo · Kevin Debeire · Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres · Philipp Hess · Helge Heuer · Nathan Mankovich · David Montero · Esther Rodrigo-Bonet · Federico Serva · Vasileios Sitokonstantinou · Alistair White · Kai-Hendrik Cohrs · Jonathan Wider · Christian Reimers · Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos · Ioannis Papoutsis · Pierre Gentine · Veronika Eyring

AI summaryExamines connections between weather forecasting and climate modelling, including unresolved issues in physical consistency, generalisation, transparency and computational cost.

Weather and climateCross-scale modellingPhysical consistency
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Research articleNatureCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Cristian Bodnar · Wessel P. Bruinsma · Ana Lucic · Megan Stanley · Anna Allen · Johannes Brandstetter · Patrick Garvan · Maik Riechert · Jonathan A. Weyn · Haiyu Dong · Jayesh K. Gupta · Kit Thambiratnam · Alexander T. Archibald · Chun-Chieh Wu · Elizabeth Heider · Max Welling · Richard E. Turner · Paris Perdikaris

AI summaryPretrains on diverse geophysical data and adapts to forecasting weather, ocean waves, air quality and tropical cyclone tracks, exploring a foundation model for multiple Earth-system tasks.

AuroraFoundation modelsMultitask forecasting
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Research articleNatureCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Anna Allen · Stratis Markou · Will Tebbutt · James Requeima · Wessel P. Bruinsma · Tom R. Andersson · Michael Herzog · Nicholas D. Lane · Matthew Chantry · J. Scott Hosking · Richard E. Turner

AI summaryTakes observations directly as input and produces global gridded and local station forecasts, connecting several stages of weather prediction in a trainable system.

AardvarkEnd-to-end learningWeather forecasting
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Research articleNatureCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Ilan Price · Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez · Ferran Alet · Tom R. Andersson · Andrew El-Kadi · Dominic Masters · Timo Ewalds · Jacklynn Stott · Shakir Mohamed · Peter Battaglia · Remi Lam · Matthew Willson

AI summaryUses a diffusion model to generate ensemble forecasts and studies probabilistic predictions of medium-range weather and extreme events.

GenCastDiffusion modelsEnsemble forecasting
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Research articleNatureCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Dmitrii Kochkov · Janni Yuval · Ian Langmore · Peter Norgaard · Jamie Smith · Griffin Mooers · Milan Klöwer · James Lottes · Stephan Rasp · Peter Düben · Sam Hatfield · Peter Battaglia · Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez · Matthew Willson · Michael P. Brenner · Stephan Hoyer

AI summaryCombines a differentiable dynamical core with neural-network parameterisations to study weather forecasting and climate simulation, including physical consistency over long integrations.

NeuralGCMDifferentiable modelsPhysics and AI
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Research articleNatureCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Kaifeng Bi · Lingxi Xie · Hengheng Zhang · Xin Chen · Xiaotao Gu · Qi Tian

AI summaryIntroduces a three-dimensional architecture for Earth data and hierarchical temporal aggregation, improving medium-range forecasts under the study’s reanalysis-based evaluation and reducing iterative errors.

Pangu-Weather3D neural networksMedium-range forecasting
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