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This study applies a probabilistic deep learning emulator to model rare stratospheric warming events, successfully capturing complex regime transitions and their statistical properties. By analyzing the latent space of a Conditional Variational Autoencoder, researchers demonstrated that the model naturally separates physically meaningful states without supervision, offering new insights into extreme weather dynamics. The work highlights how advanced generative models can uncover hidden manifolds in stochastic systems to improve operational forecasting for rare atmospheric phenomena.
AI Emulation of Stochastic Sudden Stratospheric Warming with Interpretable Latent Structure
arXiv:2610.02069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rare weather regime transitions pose a challenge for data-driven modeling due to class imbalance. In this study, we develop a probabilistic deep learning emulator for a prototypical system with regime transitions, the stochastic Holton--Mass model of stratospheric variability, and analyze the structure of its learned latent space. The Holton--Mass model exhibits two metastable regimes, a strong and a weak polar vortex, maintained by nonlinear wave--mean flow interactions, with weak stochastic forcing intermittently triggering rare transitions between these regimes that qualitatively represent SSW events. We employ a ResNet-inspired Conditional Variational Autoencoder with six-layer encoder and decoder layers and explicit current-state conditioning to model the distribution of the system's state at the next time step (one day). The emulator accurately reproduces short-term dynamics, steady-state probability distributions, regime persistence statistics, rare transition rates, the transition committor function, and the transition expected lead time of the physical model. Beyond emulation fidelity, we interrogate the learned latent representation to understand how the model internalizes the underlying metastable structure of the dynamics. Principal Component Analysis of the 32-dimensional latent space reveals a clear and unsupervised separation into four physically interpretable clusters corresponding to strong versus weak vortex regimes and stable versus transition-prone configurations. Such emergent regime separation in latent space is hard to identify for deep generative models applied to high-dimensional stochastic systems. Our results show that carefully designed probabilistic emulators can uncover physically meaningful manifolds governing extreme-event dynamics, potentially aiding the development of improved operational advanced warning systems.
Abstract:Rare weather regime transitions pose a challenge for data-driven modeling due to class imbalance. In this study, we develop a probabilistic deep learning emulator for a prototypical system with regime transitions, the stochastic Holton--Mass model of stratospheric variability, and analyze the structure of its learned latent space. The Holton--Mass model exhibits two metastable regimes, a strong and a weak polar vortex, maintained by nonlinear wave--mean flow interactions, with weak stochastic forcing intermittently triggering rare transitions between these regimes that qualitatively represent SSW events. We employ a ResNet-inspired Conditional Variational Autoencoder with six-layer encoder and decoder layers and explicit current-state conditioning to model the distribution of the system's state at the next time step (one day). The emulator accurately reproduces short-term dynamics, steady-state probability distributions, regime persistence statistics, rare transition rates, the transition committor function, and the transition expected lead time of the physical model. Beyond emulation fidelity, we interrogate the learned latent representation to understand how the model internalizes the underlying metastable structure of the dynamics. Principal Component Analysis of the 32-dimensional latent space reveals a clear and unsupervised separation into four physically interpretable clusters corresponding to strong versus weak vortex regimes and stable versus transition-prone configurations. Such emergent regime separation in latent space is hard to identify for deep generative models applied to high-dimensional stochastic systems. Our results show that carefully designed probabilistic emulators can uncover physically meaningful manifolds governing extreme-event dynamics, potentially aiding the development of improved operational advanced warning systems.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2610.02069 [physics.ao-ph]
(or arXiv:2610.02069v1 [physics.ao-ph] for this version)
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