Bridging short- and medium-range weather forecasting with machine learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26822v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:01:11 GMT
• Title: Bridging short- and medium-range weather forecasting with machine learning
• Abstract summary: We present Nested-EAGLE: a 0.25 global weather model with a 6 km refinement over the Contiguous United States (CONUS)<n>The model achieves significantly lower mean-squared error in near-surface and low-level quantities over CONUS.<n>We show that the skill gains for near-surface fields stem from incorporating high-resolution regional analysis data into training.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employs independent prediction systems for distinct forecast products. While some separation is practical, we argue that combining short- and medium-range weather into a single prediction system would provide the public with a useful distillation of global weather and its impacts. To this end, we present Nested-EAGLE (Experimental Artificial intelligence Global and Limited-area Ensemble): a 0.25° global weather model with a 6 km refinement over the Contiguous United States (CONUS). The model achieves significantly lower mean-squared error in near-surface and low-level quantities over CONUS compared to NOAA's Global Forecast System and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR), while remaining competitive throughout the rest of the global atmosphere. We show that the skill gains for near-surface fields stem from incorporating high-resolution regional analysis data into training through the nesting process. Forecasts of precipitation amounts are less skillful than those from HRRR, owing to deterministic training. However, we show that Nested-EAGLE provides the most accurate forecasts of storm locations at longer leads, despite blurred extrema. Our results motivate future work to extend the skill gains beyond CONUS and improve precipitation representation.

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