WeatherBench 2: A Benchmark for the Next Generation of Data‐Driven Global Weather Models
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WeatherBench 2 is an update to the global, medium‐range (1–14 days) weather forecasting benchmark proposed by (Rasp et al., 2020, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020ms002203 ), designed with the aim to accelerate progress in data‐driven weather modeling. WeatherBench 2 consists of an open‐source evaluation framework, publicly available training, ground truth and baseline data as well as a continuously updated website with the latest metrics and state‐of‐the‐art models: https://sites.research.google/weatherbench . This paper describes the design principles of the evaluation framework and presents results for current state‐of‐the‐art physical and data‐driven weather models. The metrics are based on established practices for evaluating weather forecasts at leading operational weather centers. We define a set of headline scores to provide an overview of model performance. In addition, we also discuss caveats in the current evaluation setup and challenges for the future of data‐driven weather forecasting.
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The evaluation set-up follows WeatherBench2, regrids all forecasts to a 1.5° grid using conservative regridding, and averages over all 732 forecasts made at noon and midnight UTC in 2020, which was held out from training data for all machine-learning models.
“Our evaluation set-up focuses on quantifying accuracy and physical consistency, following WeatherBench212. We regrid all forecasts to a 1.5° grid using conservative regridding, and average over all 732 forecasts made at noon and midnight UTC in the year 2020, which was held-out from training data for all machine-learning models.”
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ECMWF's ensemble model achieves the best performance across the majority of lead times.
“We use ECMWF’s ensemble (ENS) model as a reference baseline as it achieves the best performance across the majority of lead times12.”
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- Authors
- Rasp, S., Hoyer, S., Merose, A., Langmore, I., Battaglia, P., Russell, T., Sanchez‐Gonzalez, A., Yang, V., Carver, R., Agrawal, S., Chantry, M., Ben Bouallegue, Z., Dueben, P., Bromberg, C., Sisk, J., Barrington, L., Bell, A., & Sha, F.
- Affiliations
- Google (United States) (US)
- Google DeepMind (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Google DeepMind London UK
- Google Research Mountain View CA USA
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (GB)
- European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts Reading UK
- Corresponding author
- Rasp, Stephan
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2024-06
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 1942-2466 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4399779937
- Cited by
- 245
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 111 · 2025: 95 · 2024: 39
- FWCI
- 44.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Model Reduction and Neural Networks
- Keywords
- medium-range weather forecasting, forecast evaluation metrics
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