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Poster

FNP: Fourier Neural Processes for Arbitrary-Resolution Data Assimilation

Kun Chen · Peng Ye · Hao Chen · kang chen · Tao Han · Wanli Ouyang · Tao Chen · LEI BAI

East Exhibit Hall A-C #3905
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Fri 13 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 2 p.m. PST

Abstract:

Data assimilation is a vital component in modern global medium-range weather forecasting systems to obtain the best estimation of the atmospheric state by combining the short-term forecast and observations. Recently, AI-based data assimilation approaches have attracted increasing attention for their significant advantages over traditional techniques in terms of computational consumption. However, existing AI-based data assimilation methods can only handle observations with a specific resolution, lacking the compatibility and generalization ability to assimilate observations with other resolutions. Considering that complex real-world observations often have different resolutions, we propose the Fourier Neural Processes (FNP) for arbitrary-resolution data assimilation in this paper. Leveraging the efficiency of the designed modules and flexible structure of neural processes, FNP achieves state-of-the-art results in assimilating observations with varying resolutions, and also exhibits increasing advantages over the counterparts as the resolution and the amount of observations increase. Moreover, our FNP trained on a fixed resolution can directly handle the assimilation of observations with out-of-distribution resolutions and the observational information reconstruction task without additional fine-tuning, demonstrating its excellent generalization ability across data resolutions as well as across tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/OpenEarthLab/FNP.

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