Physics-Knowledge-Guided Hybrid Neural Learning for Arctic Sea Ice Concentration Evolution and Short-Range Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21767v1
• Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:18:44 GMT
• Title: Physics-Knowledge-Guided Hybrid Neural Learning for Arctic Sea Ice Concentration Evolution and Short-Range Prediction
• Abstract summary: The Physics-Informed Hybrid Ice Model organizes its network structure according to the physical dependencies encoded in the sea ice continuity equation.<n>PIHIM preserves the representation capacity of deep learning while providing a process-decomposed formulation of ice displacement, freeze-melt areal change, and local error closure.
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• Abstract: Accurate modeling of sea ice concentration (SIC) evolution is essential for polar climate assessment and short?range sea ice prediction. Numerical and data-driven approaches constitute major foundations for SIC modeling, but the former often require complex parameterizations and substantial compu?tation, whereas the latter rarely encode physical dependencies explicitly. This study presents the Physics-Informed Hybrid Ice Model (PIHIM), a differentiable data-driven hybrid ice model for daily SIC evolution that organizes its network structure according to the physical dependencies encoded in the sea ice continuity equation and explicitly accounts for dynamical transport, ther?modynamically driven areal growth and loss, and unresolved local processes. PIHIM preserves the representation capacity of deep learning while providing a process-decomposed formulation of ice displacement, freeze-melt areal change, and local error closure. Two evaluation settings are adopted: reanalysis-forced simulation examines SIC evolution stability under reanalysis forcing, and forecast-forced prediction assesses short-range performance un?der forecast-forced conditions, with reanalysis and observational SIC serving as verification references. Results indicate enhanced ice-edge preservation and error-growth control in reanalysis?forced simulation, while PIHIM retains measurable short-range prediction skill under forecast-forced conditions. Our code will be made publicly available after the paper is accepted.

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