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ArticleNature communications2023

Adaptive bias correction for improved subseasonal forecasting.

Soukayna Mouatadid, Paulo Orenstein, Genevieve Flaspohler, Judah Cohen, Miruna Oprescu, Ernest Fraenkel, Lester Mackey

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Soukayna MouatadidDepartment of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. soukayna@cs.toronto.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0927-6789
Paulo OrensteinInstituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0907-704X
Genevieve FlaspohlernLine Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4037-0519
Judah CohenAtmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-4482
Miruna OprescuDepartment of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Ernest FraenkelDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9249-8181
Lester MackeyMicrosoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA, USA. lmackey@microsoft.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1102-0387

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) PLR-1901352United States Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) OAR-WPO -2021-2006592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subseasonal forecasting-predicting temperature and precipitation 2 to 6 weeks ahead-is critical for effective water allocation, wildfire management, and drought and flood mitigation. Recent international research efforts have advanced the subseasonal capabilities of operational dynamical models, yet temperature and precipitation prediction skills remain poor, partly due to stubborn errors in representing atmospheric dynamics and physics inside dynamical models. Here, to counter these errors, we introduce an adaptive bias correction (ABC) method that combines state-of-the-art dynamical forecasts with observations using machine learning. We show that, when applied to the leading subseasonal model from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), ABC improves temperature forecasting skill by 60-90% (over baseline skills of 0.18-0.25) and precipitation forecasting skill by 40-69% (over baseline skills of 0.11-0.15) in the contiguous U.S. We couple these performance improvements with a practical workflow to explain ABC skill gains and identify higher-skill windows of opportunity based on specific climate conditions.

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