Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3417-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3417-2022
Development and technical paper
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28 Apr 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 28 Apr 2022

Conservation laws in a neural network architecture: enforcing the atom balance of a Julia-based photochemical model (v0.2.0)

Patrick Obin Sturm and Anthony S. Wexler

Data sets

Photochemical Box Model in Julia Patrick Obin Sturm https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5736487

Model code and software

Python code for Sturm and Wexler (2022): Conservation laws in a neural network architecture Patrick Obin Sturm and Anthony S. Wexler https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6363763

Short summary
Large air quality and climate models require vast amounts of computational power. Machine learning tools like neural networks can be used to make these models more efficient, with the downside that their results might not make physical sense or be easy to interpret. This work develops a physically interpretable neural network that obeys scientific laws like conservation of mass and models atmospheric composition more accurately than a traditional neural network.