Ocean emulator runs on unstructured mesh, beating baselines for currents

HClimRep-Ocean forecasts ocean currents more accurately than existing methods at 30-day lead times, while temperature and salinity skill remains limited.

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Kacper Nowak · Aleksei Koldunov · Nikolay Koldunov · Savvas Melidonis · Ankit Patnala · Simon Grasse · +4 more

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research · Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Supercomputing Center · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts · University of Cologne

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The authors present HClimRep-Ocean, a machine-learning emulator that operates directly on the unstructured computational mesh of the FESOM2 ocean model.

The authors developed HClimRep-Ocean, a graph neural network-based emulator that directly processes the native unstructured mesh of the Finite-volumE Sea ice-Ocean Model (FESOM2), avoiding the interpolation and resolution loss inherent in standard latitude-longitude grids.

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From Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and 5 others

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HClimRep-Ocean beats all baselines for 30-day current forecasts but not for temperature and salinity.

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