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Research article
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30 Jul 2021
Research article |
| 30 Jul 2021
| 30 Jul 2021
Producing realistic climate data with generative adversarial networks
CERFACS, Toulouse, France
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Olivier Pannekoucke
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Corentin Lapeyre
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CERFACS, Toulouse, France
CERFACS, Toulouse, France
Olivier Thual
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CERFACS, Toulouse, France
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Short summary
This paper investigates the potential of a type of deep generative neural network to produce realistic weather situations when trained from the climate of a general circulation model. The generator represents the climate in a compact latent space. It is able to reproduce many aspects of the targeted multivariate distribution. Some properties of our method open new perspectives such as the exploration of the extremes close to a given state or how to connect two realistic weather states.
This paper investigates the potential of a type of deep generative neural network to produce...
