Differentiable Programming for Earth System Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13825v2
• Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 08:56:26 GMT
• Title: Differentiable Programming for Earth System Modeling
• Authors: Maximilian Gelbrecht and Alistair White and Sebastian Bathiany and Niklas Boers
• Abstract summary: State-of-the-art Earth System Models (ESMs) can reproduce the observational global mean temperature anomalies of the last 150 years. We argue that making ESMs automatically differentiable has huge potential to advance ESMs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Earth System Models (ESMs) are the primary tools for investigating future Earth system states at time scales from decades to centuries, especially in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas release. State-of-the-art ESMs can reproduce the observational global mean temperature anomalies of the last 150 years. Nevertheless, ESMs need further improvements, most importantly regarding (i) the large spread in their estimates of climate sensitivity, i.e., the temperature response to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, (ii) the modeled spatial patterns of key variables such as temperature and precipitation, (iii) their representation of extreme weather events, and (iv) their representation of multistable Earth system components and their ability to predict associated abrupt transitions. Here, we argue that making ESMs automatically differentiable has huge potential to advance ESMs, especially with respect to these key shortcomings. First, automatic differentiability would allow objective calibration of ESMs, i.e., the selection of optimal values with respect to a cost function for a large number of free parameters, which are currently tuned mostly manually. Second, recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and in the amount, accuracy, and resolution of observational data promise to be helpful with at least some of the above aspects because ML may be used to incorporate additional information from observations into ESMs. Automatic differentiability is an essential ingredient in the construction of such hybrid models, combining process-based ESMs with ML components. We document recent work showcasing the potential of automatic differentiation for a new generation of substantially improved, data-informed ESMs.

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