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AI & Local Climate Policy

Using Advanced AI for Simultaneous Bias-Correction and Down-scaling of Climate Model Projections

AI for Localized Climate Policy Decision Making

The AI & Localized Policy project is aimed at using advanced AI for simultaneous bias-correction and downscaling of climate model projections for localized policy relevance.

This project explores the capacity of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) to simultaneously downscale and bias-correct general circulation climate models (GCMs) and climate projections. The general task at hand is to develop AI models that take low-resolution climate maps (produced by GCMs) as input and produce high-resolution counterparts that capture the observed climatic structure (e.g., marginal distribution properties, spatiotemporal dependence, etc) and honor mass conservation. When successful, this project will lead to obtaining downscaled and bias-corrected climate projections that are more relevant and actionable at scales that matter for societal decision-making, especially for local governance and community preparedness.  

The team's Postdoctoral Research Associate, Shivam Singh, is a Climate Fellow working collaboratively with his mentors from the environmental science and data science disciplines at UVA, to leverage their combined expertise to pioneer the application of state-of-the-art AI techniques, including knowledge-guided Style Generative Adversarial Networks (StyleGAN) and diffusion models, to simultaneously correct biases and downscale climate projections. 

Project Team

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Antonios Mamalakis
Antonios
Mamalakis
Assistant Professor of Data Science & Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
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Tom Hartvigsen
Tom
Hartvigsen
Assistant Professor of Data Science
University of Virginia
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Shivam Singh
Shivam
Singh
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Virginia
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Simon
Papalexiou
Professor
University of Calgary

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