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Application of Deep Learning to Estimate Atmospheric Gravity Wave Parameters in Reanalysis Datasets
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  • Daisuke Matsuoka,
  • Shingo Watanabe,
  • Kaoru Sato,
  • Sho Kawazoe,
  • Wei Yu,
  • Steve  M Easterbrook
Daisuke Matsuoka
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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Shingo Watanabe
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
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Kaoru Sato
University of Tokyo
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Sho Kawazoe
Hokkaido University
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Wei Yu
University of Toronto
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Steve  M Easterbrook
University of Toronto
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Abstract

Gravity waves play an essential role in driving and maintaining global circulation. To understand their contribution in the atmosphere, the accurate reproduction of their distribution is important. Thus, a deep learning approach for the estimation of gravity wave momentum fluxes was proposed, and its performance at 100 hPa was tested using data from low resolution zonal and meridional winds, temperature, and specific humidity at 300, 700, and 850 hPa in the Hokkaido region (Japan). To this end, a deep convolutional neural network was trained on 29-year reanalysis datasets (JRA-55 and DSJRA-55), and the final 5-year data were reserved for evaluation. The results showed that compared to ground truth data, the fine-scale momentum flux distribution of the gravity waves could be estimated at a low computational cost. Particularly, in winter, when gravity waves are stronger, the median RMSE of the maximum momentum flux in the target area was 0.06–0.13 mPa.
16 Oct 2020Published in Geophysical Research Letters volume 47 issue 19. 10.1029/2020GL089436