Browsing by Subject "machine learning"
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A Combined Neural Network‐ and Physics‐Based Approach for Modeling Plasmasphere Dynamics
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In recent years, feedforward neural networks (NNs) have been successfully applied to reconstruct global plasmasphere dynamics in the equatorial plane. These neural network‐based models capture the large‐scale dynamics of ... -
A Data-Driven Framework to Characterize State-Level Water Use in the United States
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Access to credible estimates of water use is critical for making optimal operational decisions and investment plans to ensure reliable and affordable provisioning of water. Furthermore, identifying the key predictors of ... -
Data‐Driven Medium‐Range Weather Prediction With a Resnet Pretrained on Climate Simulations: A New Model for WeatherBench
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Numerical weather prediction has traditionally been based on the models that discretize the dynamical and physical equations of the atmosphere. Recently, however, the rise of deep learning has created increased interest ... -
Deep Emulators for Differentiation, Forecasting, and Parametrization in Earth Science Simulators
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To understand and predict large, complex, and chaotic systems, Earth scientists build simulators from physical laws. Simulators generalize better to new scenarios, require fewer tunable parameters, and are more interpretable ... -
Fast fitting of reflectivity data of growing thin films using neural networks
(Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2019-11-08)X‐ray reflectivity (XRR) is a powerful and popular scattering technique that can give valuable insight into the growth behavior of thin films. This study shows how a simple artificial neural network model can be used to ... -
Machine learning based identification of dominant controls on runoff dynamics
; Schumann, Andreas H. (Hydrological Processes, 2020-03-16)
Hydrological models used for flood prediction in ungauged catchments are commonly fitted to regionally transferred data. The key issue of this procedure is to identify hydrologically similar catchments. Therefore, the ... -
Machine Learning‐Based Prediction of Spatiotemporal Uncertainties in Global Wind Velocity Reanalyses
; Saynisch‐Wagner, Jan; Thomas, Maik (Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2020-05-13)
The characterization of uncertainties in geophysical quantities is an important task with widespread applications for time series prediction, numerical modeling, and data assimilation. In this context, machine learning is ... -
Mapping and Understanding Patterns of Air Quality Using Satellite Data and Machine Learning
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The quantification of factors leading to harmfully high levels of particulate matter (PM) remains challenging. This study presents a novel approach using a statistical model that is trained to predict hourly concentrations ... -
Medium Energy Electron Flux in Earth's Outer Radiation Belt (MERLIN): A Machine Learning Model
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The radiation belts of the Earth, filled with energetic electrons, comprise complex and dynamic systems that pose a significant threat to satellite operation. While various models of electron flux both for low and relativistic ... -
Potential and Limitations of Machine Learning for Modeling Warm‐Rain Cloud Microphysical Processes
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The use of machine learning based on neural networks for cloud microphysical parameterizations is investigated. As an example, we use the warm‐rain formation by collision‐coalescence, that is, the parameterization of ... -
Predicting Geothermal Heat Flow in Antarctica With a Machine Learning Approach
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We present a machine learning approach to statistically derive geothermal heat flow (GHF) for Antarctica. The adopted approach estimates GHF from multiple geophysical and geological data sets, assuming that GHF is substantially ... -
Predicting Imminence of Analog Megathrust Earthquakes With Machine Learning: Implications for Monitoring Subduction Zones
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Subduction zones are monitored using space geodesy with increasing resolution, with the aim of better capturing the deformation accompanying the seismic cycle. Here, we investigate data characteristics that maximize the ... -
Synthetic resampling strategies and machine learning for digital soil mapping in Iran
Taghizadeh‐Mehrjardi, Ruhollah;; ; ; Jamshidi, Mohammad; Davatgar, Naser; Toomanian, Norair; (European Journal of Soil Science, 2020-01-08)
Most common machine learning (ML) algorithms usually work well on balanced training sets, that is, datasets in which all classes are approximately represented equally. Otherwise, the accuracy estimates may be unreliable ... -
WeatherBench: A Benchmark Data Set for Data-Driven Weather Forecasting
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Data-driven approaches, most prominently deep learning, have become powerful tools for prediction in many domains. A natural question to ask is whether data-driven methods could also be used to predict global weather ...