Jose González-Abad

Alumni

Publications

Multi-variable Hard Physical Constraints for Climate Model Downscaling

Jose González-Abad

Alex Hernández-García

Paula Harder

David Rolnick

José Manuel Gutiérrez

Global Climate Models (GCMs) are the primary tool to simulate climate evolution and assess the impacts of climate change. However, they ofte… (see more)n operate at a coarse spatial resolution that limits their accuracy in reproducing local-scale phenomena. Statistical downscaling methods leveraging deep learning offer a solution to this problem by approximating local-scale climate fields from coarse variables, thus enabling regional GCM projections. Typically, climate fields of different variables of interest are downscaled independently, resulting in violations of fundamental physical properties across interconnected variables. This study investigates the scope of this problem and, through an application on temperature, lays the foundation for a framework introducing multi-variable hard constraints that guarantees physical relationships between groups of downscaled climate variables.

2024-01-21

AAAI Symposium Series (published)

doi.org

arxiv.org

Multi-variable Hard Physical Constraints for Climate Model Downscaling

Jose Gonz'alez-Abad

'Alex Hern'andez-Garc'ia

Paula Harder

David Rolnick

Jos'e Manuel Guti'errez

2023-08-01

ArXiv (preprint)