no code implementations • 8 Nov 2024 • Kun Wang, Sumanth Varambally, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yi-An Ma, Rose Yu
Many important phenomena in scientific fields such as climate, neuroscience, and epidemiology are naturally represented as spatiotemporal gridded data with complex interactions.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2024 • Bohan Lyu, Yadi Cao, Duncan Watson-Parris, Leon Bergen, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Rose Yu
On average, our models demonstrate a 28. 18% improvement in answer accuracy and a 13. 89% increase in tool usage precision across all datasets, surpassing state-of-the-art models including GPT-4o and Claude-3. 5.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2024 • Veeramakali Vignesh Manivannan, Yasaman Jafari, Srikar Eranky, Spencer Ho, Rose Yu, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yian Ma, Leon Bergen, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
However, a critical issue remains: the lack of a comprehensive evaluation framework capable of assessing the quality and scientific validity of model outputs.
1 code implementation • 17 Sep 2024 • Jorge Baño-Medina, Agniv Sengupta, Allison Michaelis, Luca Delle Monache, Julie Kalansky, Duncan Watson-Parris
The analysis is framed on the extreme atmospheric river episode of February 2017 that contributed to the Oroville dam spillway incident in Northern California.
1 code implementation • 9 Aug 2024 • Björn Lütjens, Raffaele Ferrari, Duncan Watson-Parris, Noelle Selin
We identify that this outcome is a result of high levels of internal variability in the benchmark targets.
1 code implementation • 29 Feb 2024 • Ruijia Niu, Dongxia Wu, Kai Kim, Yi-An Ma, Duncan Watson-Parris, Rose Yu
To address these limitations, we propose Multi-fidelity Residual Neural Processes (MFRNP), a novel multi-fidelity surrogate modeling framework.
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2024 • Muhammad Ahmed Chaudhry, Lyna Kim, Jeremy Irvin, Yuzu Ido, Sonia Chu, Jared Thomas Isobe, Andrew Y. Ng, Duncan Watson-Parris
Anthropogenic emissions of aerosols can alter the albedo of clouds, but the extent of this effect, and its consequent impact on temperature change, remains uncertain.
1 code implementation • 14 Jul 2023 • Shahine Bouabid, Dino Sejdinovic, Duncan Watson-Parris
The result is an emulator that \textit{(i)} enjoys the flexibility of statistical machine learning models and can learn from data, and \textit{(ii)} has a robust physical grounding with interpretable parameters that can be used to make inference about the climate system.
1 code implementation • 6 Dec 2022 • William Yik, Sam J. Silva, Andrew Geiss, Duncan Watson-Parris
We also find no significant difference in prediction speed between networks with standard feedforward dense layers and those with randomly wired layers.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2022 • Kenza Tazi, Emiliano Díaz Salas-Porras, Ashwin Braude, Daniel Okoh, Kara D. Lamb, Duncan Watson-Parris, Paula Harder, Nis Meinert
The pipeline's first two components, a pyroCb database and a pyroCb forecast model, are presented.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2022 • Emiliano Díaz Salas-Porras, Kenza Tazi, Ashwin Braude, Daniel Okoh, Kara D. Lamb, Duncan Watson-Parris, Paula Harder, Nis Meinert
A first causal discovery analysis from observational data of pyroCb (storm clouds generated from extreme wildfires) is presented.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2022 • Paula Harder, Duncan Watson-Parris, Philip Stier, Dominik Strassel, Nicolas R. Gauger, Janis Keuper
The original M7 model is used to generate data of input-output pairs to train a neural network on it.
1 code implementation • 6 May 2022 • Shahine Bouabid, Duncan Watson-Parris, Sofija Stefanović, Athanasios Nenes, Dino Sejdinovic
In this work, we develop a framework for the vertical disaggregation of AOD into extinction profiles, i. e. the measure of light extinction throughout an atmospheric column, using readily available vertically resolved meteorological predictors such as temperature, pressure or relative humidity.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2021 • Andrew Jesson, Peter Manshausen, Alyson Douglas, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yarin Gal, Philip Stier
Aerosol-cloud interactions include a myriad of effects that all begin when aerosol enters a cloud and acts as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Paula Harder, Duncan Watson-Parris, Dominik Strassel, Nicolas Gauger, Philip Stier, Janis Keuper
This is done in the ECHAM-HAM global climate aerosol model using the M7 microphysics model, but increased computational costs make it very expensive to run at higher resolutions or for a longer time.
no code implementations • 17 Dec 2020 • Christian Schroeder de Witt, Catherine Tong, Valentina Zantedeschi, Daniele De Martini, Freddie Kalaitzis, Matthew Chantry, Duncan Watson-Parris, Piotr Bilinski
Extreme precipitation events, such as violent rainfall and hail storms, routinely ravage economies and livelihoods around the developing world.
1 code implementation • 13 Nov 2020 • Paula Harder, William Jones, Redouane Lguensat, Shahine Bouabid, James Fulton, Dánell Quesada-Chacón, Aris Marcolongo, Sofija Stefanović, Yuhan Rao, Peter Manshausen, Duncan Watson-Parris
The recent explosion in applications of machine learning to satellite imagery often rely on visible images and therefore suffer from a lack of data during the night.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2019 • Duncan Watson-Parris, Samuel Sutherland, Matthew Christensen, Anthony Caterini, Dino Sejdinovic, Philip Stier
One of the most pressing questions in climate science is that of the effect of anthropogenic aerosol on the Earth's energy balance.
1 code implementation • 5 Nov 2019 • Valentina Zantedeschi, Fabrizio Falasca, Alyson Douglas, Richard Strange, Matt J. Kusner, Duncan Watson-Parris
One of the greatest sources of uncertainty in future climate projections comes from limitations in modelling clouds and in understanding how different cloud types interact with the climate system.