New paper: On the Opportunities of (Re)-Exploring Atmospheric Science by Foundation

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Paper: On the Opportunities of (Re)-Exploring Atmospheric Science by Foundation

Authors: Lujia Zhang, Hanzhe Cui, Yurong Song, Chenyue Li, Binhang Yuan and

Abstract: Most state-of-the-art AI applications in atmospheric science are based onclassic deep learning approaches. However, such approaches cannot automaticallyintegrate multiple complicated procedures to construct an intelligent agent,since each functionality is enabled by a separate model learned fromindependent climate datasets. The emergence of foundation models, especiallymultimodal foundation models, with their ability to process heterogeneous inputdata and execute complex tasks, offers a substantial opportunity to overcomethis challenge. In this report, we want to explore a central question - how thestate-of-the-art foundation model, i.e., GPT-4o, performs various atmosphericscientific tasks. Toward this end, we conduct a case study by categorizing thetasks into four main classes, including climate data processing, physicaldiagnosis, forecast and prediction, and adaptation and mitigation. For eachtask, we comprehensively evaluate the GPT-4o's performance along with aconcrete discussion. We hope that this report may shed new light on future AIapplications and research in atmospheric science.

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17842

Reasoning: Reasoning: Let's think step by step in order to determine if the paper is about a language model. We start by examining the title and abstract for any mention of language models or related terminology. The title mentions "Foundation" but does not specify language models. The abstract discusses the use of foundation models, specifically mentioning "GPT-4o," which is a type of language model, in the context of atmospheric science tasks. The focus is on evaluating the performance of this language model in various scientific tasks.