GEN2: A Generative Prediction-Correction Framework for Long-time Emulations of Spatially-Resolved Climate Extremes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15196v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:14:25 GMT
• Title: GEN2: A Generative Prediction-Correction Framework for Long-time Emulations of Spatially-Resolved Climate Extremes
• Authors: Mengze Wang, Benedikt Barthel Sorensen, Themistoklis Sapsis,
• Abstract summary: We propose a generative prediction-correction framework for an efficient and accurate forecast of the extreme event statistics.<n>Our model accurately predicts the statistics of extreme events in different scenarios, successfully extrapolating beyond the distribution of training data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurately quantifying the increased risks of climate extremes requires generating large ensembles of climate realization across a wide range of emissions scenarios, which is computationally challenging for conventional Earth System Models. We propose GEN2, a generative prediction-correction framework for an efficient and accurate forecast of the extreme event statistics. The prediction step is constructed as a conditional Gaussian emulator, followed by a non-Gaussian machine-learning (ML) correction step. The ML model is trained on pairs of the reference data and the emulated fields nudged towards the reference, to ensure the training is robust to chaos. We first validate the accuracy of our model on historical ERA5 data and then demonstrate the extrapolation capabilities on various future climate change scenarios. When trained on a single realization of one warming scenario, our model accurately predicts the statistics of extreme events in different scenarios, successfully extrapolating beyond the distribution of training data.

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