Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model
Abstract There is growing interest in sub-seasonal to seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice due to its potential effects on midlatitude weather and climate extremes. Current prediction systems are largely dependent on physics-based climate models. While climate models can provide good forecasts for...
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crioppubl:10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2 2024-06-02T08:00:31+00:00 Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model Huan, Xiaohe Wang, Jielong Liu, Zhongfang National Natural Science Foundation of China 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2/pdf unknown IOP Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/text-and-data-mining Environmental Research Communications volume 5, issue 10, page 101003 ISSN 2515-7620 journal-article 2023 crioppubl https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2 2024-05-07T13:58:06Z Abstract There is growing interest in sub-seasonal to seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice due to its potential effects on midlatitude weather and climate extremes. Current prediction systems are largely dependent on physics-based climate models. While climate models can provide good forecasts for Arctic sea ice at different timescales, they are susceptible to initial states and high computational costs. Here we present a purely data-driven deep learning model, UNet-F/M, to predict monthly sea ice concentration (SIC) one month ahead. We train the model using monthly satellite-observed SIC for the melting and freezing seasons, respectively. Results show that UNet-F/M has a good predictive skill of Arctic SIC at monthly time scales, generally outperforming several recently proposed deep learning models, particularly for September sea-ice minimum. Our study offers a perspective on sub-seasonal prediction of future Arctic sea ice and may have implications for forecasting weather and climate in northern midlatitudes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice IOP Publishing Arctic Environmental Research Communications 5 10 101003 |
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Abstract There is growing interest in sub-seasonal to seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice due to its potential effects on midlatitude weather and climate extremes. Current prediction systems are largely dependent on physics-based climate models. While climate models can provide good forecasts for Arctic sea ice at different timescales, they are susceptible to initial states and high computational costs. Here we present a purely data-driven deep learning model, UNet-F/M, to predict monthly sea ice concentration (SIC) one month ahead. We train the model using monthly satellite-observed SIC for the melting and freezing seasons, respectively. Results show that UNet-F/M has a good predictive skill of Arctic SIC at monthly time scales, generally outperforming several recently proposed deep learning models, particularly for September sea-ice minimum. Our study offers a perspective on sub-seasonal prediction of future Arctic sea ice and may have implications for forecasting weather and climate in northern midlatitudes. |
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Huan, Xiaohe Wang, Jielong Liu, Zhongfang Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model |
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Huan, Xiaohe Wang, Jielong Liu, Zhongfang |
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Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model |
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Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model |
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Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model |
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Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model |
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Monthly Arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model |
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monthly arctic sea ice prediction based on a data-driven deep learning model |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acffb2/pdf |
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Environmental Research Communications volume 5, issue 10, page 101003 ISSN 2515-7620 |
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