Climate Change Research ›› 2024, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (6): 669-681.doi: 10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2024.158

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Opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in climate research and services

CHEN Deliang1,2(), TAN Xian-Chun3,4,5,6(), PENG Zhe3,4,5, YAN Hong-Shuo3,4,5, CHENG Yong-Long3,4,5   

  1. 1 Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    2 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 405 30, Sweden
    3 Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    4 School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    5 Center for Carbon Neutrality Strategy, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    6 Institute of Intelligent Social Governance, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
  • Received:2024-06-27 Revised:2024-09-10 Online:2024-11-30 Published:2024-09-20

Abstract:

Climate change is a serious challenge to natural ecology and human society. As an important tool for addressing climate change, climate models provide important support for understanding the mechanism of the past climate system, climate services and projections of future global change scenarios. However, problems in process representation, subgrid parameterization and spatial resolution of climate models have severely limited their simulation and prediction capabilities. With the development of economy and society, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been widely used, and its advantages of integrating multi-source data, identifying potential information, and learning from existing “experience” are expected to provide new assistance for climate research and application. Against this background, this paper firstly provides a concise review of the development of climate models, then combines the characteristics of AI on this basis to examine the application of AI in climate research and services, and analyzes the challenges faced at this stage. The results show that existing observational data and model outputs can provide a sufficient data base for AI applications, and AI can optimize and integrate climate models accordingly, thus improving the accuracy of climate simulation and prediction results. In the future, it is important to focus on the coupling of AI and climate models and to expand the application of AI in various areas of climate change, so as to more effectively address the challenges posed by global climate change.

Key words: Climate models, Artificial intelligence, Climate change

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