ML4WX

Data assimilation

Learning earth system models from observations: machine learning or data assimilation?

A. J. Geer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences · · ECMWF

Paper

In one sentence. Perspective framing data assimilation and machine learning as equivalent inverse methods in a Bayesian network, e.g. linking 4D-Var to recurrent neural networks, to learn earth system models from observations.

Labels

Topic
Data assimilation, Foundation models
Type
Position or perspective paper
Method
RNN / LSTM / ConvLSTM, Physics-informed / physics-constrained
Domain
Global
Data
Other
Status
Research
Identifiers
arXiv:2020.0089 DOI:10.1098/rsta.2020.0089 OpenAlex:W3131584643
Added
2026-10-22

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