Articles | Volume 15, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3923-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3923-2022
Development and technical paper
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16 May 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 16 May 2022

Stable climate simulations using a realistic general circulation model with neural network parameterizations for atmospheric moist physics and radiation processes

Xin Wang, Yilun Han, Wei Xue, Guangwen Yang, and Guang J. Zhang

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This study uses a set of deep neural networks to learn a parameterization scheme from a superparameterized general circulation model (GCM). After being embedded in a realistically configurated GCM, the parameterization scheme performs stably in long-term climate simulations and reproduces reasonable climatology and climate variability. This success is the first for long-term stable climate simulations using machine learning parameterization under real geographical boundary conditions.
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