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Learning Prognostic Variables for AI Convective Parameterizations via Symbolic Distillation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Hybrid AI-physics climate modeling aims to improve coarse (~100km-resolution) Earth system models by learning to parameterize subgrid processes from high-fidelity data. However, this so far mostly involves local-in-time, diagnostic parameterizations, in which the subgrid state depends only on the current coarse state with no memory of previous states, which is unrealistic for processes such as convection that have intrinsic persistence. To address this, we enhance local-in-time parameterizations by learning prognostic variables that compactly carry important, additional past information where

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