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Climate in a Bottle: Towards a Generative Foundation Model for the Kilometer-Scale Global Atmosphere
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Climate in a Bottle: Towards a Generative Foundation Model for the Kilometer-Scale Global Atmosphere
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Climate modeling is reaching unprecedented resolution, producing petabytes of data. AI climate model emulators offer a path to computationally cheap analysis, enabling new scientific insight and scenario planning. Recent advances show promise in faithfully emulating climate data. However, prevailing auto-regressive paradigms are difficult to train on climate time horizons due to drifts, instabilities, and component-coupling challenges. They are hard to scale to high resolution and require sifting through troves of output to identify rare extremes of interest. We present Climate in a Bottle (cBottle), a generative diffusion-based framework emulating global 5 km climate simulations and reanalysis on the HEALPix grid. cBottle samples directly from the full distribution of atmospheric states, avoiding auto-regressive rollout, and is the first to reach this 12.5M-pixel global resolution. It consists of two stages: a coarse-resolution generator conditioned on sea surface temperatures and solar position, followed by a patch-based 16x super-resolution stage. cBottle passes a battery of tests, including diurnal-to-seasonal variability, large-scale modes of variability, tropical cyclone statistics, and trends of climate change and weather extremes. It is a step toward a foundation model: bridging data modalities (reanalysis and simulation), enabling zero-shot bias correction, downscaling, and data infilling. It also enables new interactivity via guided diffusion. For example, we train a tropical cyclone (TC) classifier alongside the generator, guide towards TC states, and obtain physically credible samples. This opens the door to guidance methods for a wide array of user queries and new ways of interacting with climate data.
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