Abstract
Accurate precipitation simulations for various climate scenarios are
critical for understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change.
This study employs a Cycle-generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) to
improve global 3-hour-average precipitation fields predicted by a coarse
grid (200~km) atmospheric model across a range of
climates, morphing them to match their statistical properties with
reference fine-grid (25~km) simulations. We evaluate its
performance on both the target climates and an independent ramped-SST
simulation. The translated precipitation fields remove most of the
biases simulated by the coarse-grid model in the mean precipitation
climatology, the cumulative distribution function of 3-hourly
precipitation, and the diurnal cycle of precipitation over land. These
results highlight the potential of CycleGAN as a powerful tool for bias
correction in climate change simulations, paving the way for more
reliable predictions of precipitation patterns across a wide range of
climates.