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Global Precipitation Correction Across a Range of Climates Using CycleGAN
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  • Jeremy J McGibbon,
  • Spencer Koncius Clark,
  • Brian Henn,
  • Anna Kwa,
  • Oliver Watt-Meyer,
  • W. Andre Perkins,
  • Christopher S. Bretherton
Jeremy J McGibbon
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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Spencer Koncius Clark
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence / NOAA-GFDL
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Brian Henn
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
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Anna Kwa
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Oliver Watt-Meyer
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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W. Andre Perkins
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Christopher S. Bretherton
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Abstract

Accurate precipitation simulations for various climate scenarios are critical for understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change. This study employs a Cycle-generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) to improve global 3-hour-average precipitation fields predicted by a coarse grid (200~km) atmospheric model across a range of climates, morphing them to match their statistical properties with reference fine-grid (25~km) simulations. We evaluate its performance on both the target climates and an independent ramped-SST simulation. The translated precipitation fields remove most of the biases simulated by the coarse-grid model in the mean precipitation climatology, the cumulative distribution function of 3-hourly precipitation, and the diurnal cycle of precipitation over land. These results highlight the potential of CycleGAN as a powerful tool for bias correction in climate change simulations, paving the way for more reliable predictions of precipitation patterns across a wide range of climates.
27 Jun 2023Submitted to ESS Open Archive
08 Jul 2023Published in ESS Open Archive