Team
Tom Beucler (Principal Investigator)
Saranya Ganesh S (Postdoctoral Scholar)
Jingyan Yu (Postdoctoral Fellow, also collaborating with Prof. Rozenblat and P.D. Tonini)
Frederick Iat-Hin Tam (PhD Student)
Milton Gomez (PhD Student)
Francesco Zanetta (Visiting PhD Student from ETH/MeteoSwiss)
Deborah Bassotto (Visiting PhD Student from University of Valencia)
Nils Chabloz (Bachelor Student)
Sabrina Damiani (IDYST Admin Officer)Alumni
Meryam Cherqaoui Fassi (Previously Bachelor Student at UNIL, now Masters Student at ETH)
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2023
(Submitted, Preprint available) Zanetta, F., D. Nerini, T. Beucler et al.: Physics-constrained deep learning postprocessing of temperature and humidity.
(Submitted, Preprint available) Mooers, G., M. Pritchard, T. Beucler et al.: Comparing Storm Resolving Models and Climates via Unsupervised Machine Learning.
(Submitted, Preprint available) Beucler, T. et al.: Climate-Invariant Machine Learning.
(In press, Preprint available) Beucler, T. et al.: Machine Learning for Clouds and Climate (Invited Chapter for the AGU Geophysical Monograph Series: Clouds and Climate).
(In press, Preprint available) Mooers, G., T. Beucler et al.: An Unsupervised Learning Perspective on the Dynamic Contribution to Extreme Precipitation Changes. Environmental Data Science. Proceedings of the CCAI Workshop at the 2022 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
2022
Grundner, A., T. Beucler et al.: Deep Learning Based Cloud Cover Parameterization for ICON. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e2021MS002959. [pdf]
Wu, Z., T. Beucler et al.: Modeling Stratospheric Polar Vortex Variation and Identifying Vortex Extremes Using Explainable Machine Learning. Environmental Data Science 1: e17. [pdf]
Behrens, G., T. Beucler et al.: Non‐Linear Dimensionality Reduction with a Variational Encoder Decoder to Understand Convective Processes in Climate Models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e2022MS003130. [pdf]
2021
(Workshop) Mangipudi, H., G. Mooers, M. Pritchard, T. Beucler & S. Mandt: Analyzing High-Resolution Clouds and Convection using Multi-Channel VAEs. 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Gentine, P., V. Eyring & T. Beucler: Deep Learning for the Parametrization of Subgrid Processes in Climate Models. Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences: A Comprehensive Approach to Remote Sensing, Climate Science, and Geosciences, 307-314.
Griffin, M., M. Pritchard, T. Beucler et al.: Assessing the Potential of Deep Learning for Emulating Cloud Superparameterization in Climate Models with Real-Geography Boundary Conditions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, e2020MS002385. [pdf]
Beucler, T. et al.: Enforcing Analytic Constraints in Neural-Networks Emulating Physical Systems. Physical Review Letters, 126.9: 098302. Editors’ Suggestion. [pdf]
2020
Brenowitz, N., T. Beucler, M. Pritchard & C. Bretherton: Interpreting and Stabilizing Machine-Learning Parametrizations of Convection. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 4357-4375.
(Workshop) Beucler, T. et al.: Towards Physically-Consistent, Data-Driven Models of Convection. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2020. [pdf]
(Workshop) Mooers, G., J. Tuyls, S. Mandt, M. Pritchard & T. Beucler: Generative Modeling of Atmospheric Convection.Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Climate Informatics, 98-105. [pdf]
Beucler, T., D. Leutwyler & J. Windmiller: Quantifying Convective Aggregation Using the Tropical Moist Margin’s Length. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002092. [pdf]
Abbott, T., T. Cronin & T. Beucler: Convective dynamics and the response of precipitation extremes to warming in radiative-convective equilibrium. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 1637-1660. [pdf]
2014-2019
Beucler, T., T. Abbott, T. Cronin & M. Pritchard: Comparing Convective Self‐Aggregation in Idealized Models to Observed Moist Static Energy Variability Near the Equator. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 17-18. [pdf]
(Workshop) Beucler, T. et al.: Achieving Conservation of Energy in Neural Network Emulators for Climate Modeling. 2019 International Conference on Machine Learning.
(Thesis) Beucler, T.: Interaction between Water Vapor, Radiation and Convection in the Tropics, Ph.D. Thesis in Atmospheric Science.
Beucler, T. & T. Cronin: A Budget for the Size of Convective Self-Aggregation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145, 947-966.
Beucler, T., T. Cronin & K. Emanuel: A Linear Response Framework for Radiative-Convective Instability. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10(8), 1924-1951.
Beucler, T. & T. Cronin: Moisture-Radiative Cooling Instability. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8, 1620–1640.
Beucler, T.: A Correlated Stochastic Model for the Large-scale Advection, Condensation and Diffusion of Water Vapour. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142, 1721–1731.
(Thesis) Beucler, T. & K. Emanuel: Self-aggregation phenomenon in cyclogenesis, Masters Thesis in Fluid Mechanics.
Selected Conference Presentations
2022
Beucler, T.: Atmospheric Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Climate Modeling and Weather Forecasting. ESiWACE2 2nd Virtual Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Weather and Climate Modelling
Beucler, T.: Climate-Invariant Machine Learning. AGCI Workshop on “Exploring the Frontiers in Earth System Modeling with Machine Learning and Big Data”
Beucler, T.: Atmospheric Physics-Guided Machine Learning. IXXI Conference on ML and sampling methods for climate and physics (short version here from AMLD)
Beucler, T.: Physics-Guided and Causally-Informed Machine Learning for Climate Modelling. ECMWF Machine Learning Workshop
2020
Beucler, T.: Climate-Invariant Nets: Physical Rescalings Help NNs Generalize to Out-of-sample Climates. SIAM Mathematics of Planet Earth 2020
Beucler, T.: Towards Physically-Consistent, Data-Driven and Interpretable Models of Convection. NOAA STAR Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Beucler, T.: Building a Hierarchy of Hybrid, Neural Network Models of Convection. 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
Beucler, T.: Comparing Convective Self-Aggregation in Models to Obs. MSE Variability. 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
2016-2019
Beucler, T.: A Spectral Budget for the Size of Convective Self-Aggregation. 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Beucler, T.: A Moist Static Energy Perspective on Atmospheric Rivers. 17th Conference on Mesoscale Processes
Beucler, T.: The Vertical Structure of Radiative-Convective Instability. 21st Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Beucler, T.: Instabilities of Radiative Convective Equilibrium with an Interactive Surface. 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology