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Earth systems · AI research

Connect weather, ocean and land processes through Earth-system prediction and foundation models.

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Research records · 7

PerspectiveNature Machine IntelligenceCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Min Chen · Zhiyi Zhu · Thorsten Wagener · Niklas Boers · R. Dietmar Müller · Josef Strobl · Gustau Camps-Valls · Michael Batty · Anthony J. Jakeman · Olaf Kolditz · Stefano Nativi · Maria Antonia Brovelli · Felix Creutzig · Pankaj Kumar · Paul Whitehead · C. Michael Barton · Dichen Liu · Peilong Ma · Zaiyang Ma · Fengyuan Zhang · Bo Zhang · Peng Hou · Guonian Lü

AI summaryDiscusses numerical stability, workflow transparency and differences in computing resources, and proposes a framework for assessing and supporting reproducibility in hybrid Earth system models.

ReproducibilityHybrid modellingRHEM
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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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PerspectiveCommunications Earth & EnvironmentCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Xiao Xiang Zhu · Zhitong Xiong · Yi Wang · Adam J. Stewart · Konrad Heidler · Yuanyuan Wang · Zhenghang Yuan · Thomas Dujardin · Qingsong Xu · Yilei Shi

AI summaryProposes 11 features of an ideal Earth foundation model, including multisensor integration, awareness of location and scale, and physical consistency, and discusses evaluation and research directions.

Earth observationFoundation modelsEvaluation
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Research articleGeophysical Research Letters

Authors Surya Dheeshjith · Adam Subel · Alistair Adcroft · Julius Busecke · Carlos Fernandez‐Granda · Shubham Gupta · Laure Zanna

AI summaryLearns from ocean-model data at multiple depths to emulate temperature, salinity, currents and sea-surface height. Long integrations are stable in the study, while responses to trends in external forcing remain limited in amplitude.

SamudraOcean emulationClimate modelling
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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 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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PerspectiveNature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentCAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Authors Chaopeng Shen · Alison P. Appling · Pierre Gentine · Toshiyuki Bandai · Hoshin Gupta · Alexandre Tartakovsky · Marco Baity-Jesi · Fabrizio Fenicia · Daniel Kifer · Li Li · Xiaofeng Liu · Wei Ren · Yi Zheng · Ciaran J. Harman · Martyn Clark · Matthew Farthing · Dapeng Feng · Praveen Kumar · Doaa Aboelyazeed · Farshid Rahmani · Yalan Song · Hylke E. Beck · Tadd Bindas · Dipankar Dwivedi · Kuai Fang · Marvin Höge · Chris Rackauckas · Binayak Mohanty · Tirthankar Roy · Chonggang Xu · Kathryn Lawson

AI summaryReviews how differentiable computation can jointly train physical components and neural networks to support process understanding, parameter estimation and geoscientific prediction.

Differentiable modellingPhysical constraintsHydrological modelling
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