Resolving sources of uncertainty in AI weather forecasting
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arXiv:2511.14218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weather forecast uncertainty arises from imperfect analyses and forecast models, but ensemble spread alone does not reveal how distinct sources relate to downstream targets. We introduce Pangu-Bayes, a probabilistic forecasting hierarchy that treats atmospheric-state and learned-model uncertainty as distinct stochastic variables, crossing flow-dependent perturbations of the evolving state with Bayesian parameter samples. This construction yields model-defined source-resolved variance components and matched pathway evaluation. Across 90
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2511.14218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weather forecast uncertainty arises from imperfect analyses and forecast models, but ensemble spread alone does not reveal how distinct sources relate to downstream targets.
- We introduce Pangu-Bayes, a probabilistic forecasting hierarchy that treats atmospheric-state and learned-model uncertainty as distinct stochastic variables, crossing flow-dependent perturbations of the evolving state with Bayesian parameter samples.
- This construction yields model-defined source-resolved variance components and matched pathway evaluation.
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