Predicting atmospheric optical properties for radiative transfer computations using neural networks

05/05/2020
by   Menno A. Veerman, et al.
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The radiative transfer equations are well-known, but radiation parametrizations in atmospheric models are computationally expensive. A promising tool for accelerating parametrizations is the use of machine learning techniques. In this study, we develop a machine learning-based parametrization for the gaseous optical properties by training neural networks to emulate the Rapid Radiative Transfer model for General circulation Model applications - Parallel (RRTMGP). To minimize computational costs, we reduce the range of atmospheric conditions for which the neural networks are applicable and use machine-specific optimised BLAS functions to accelerate matrix computations. To generate training data, we use a set of randomly perturbed atmospheric profiles and calculate optical properties using RRTMGP. Predicted optical properties are highly accurate and the resulting radiative fluxes have errors within 1.2 W m^-2 for longwave and 0.12 W m^-2 for shortwave radiation. Our parametrization is 3 to 7 times faster than RRTMGP, depending on the size of the neural networks. We further test the trade-off between speed and accuracy by training neural networks for a single LES case, so smaller and therefore faster networks can achieve a desired accuracy, especially for shortwave radiation. We conclude that our machine learning-based parametrization can speed-up radiative transfer computations whilst retaining high accuracy.

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