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Regional Evaluation of Pangu-Weather Driven by Multiple NWP Initial Fields over Shandong Province, China
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Accurate weather forecasting is essential for decision-making in agriculture, transportation, disaster prevention, and energy management. In recent years, data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) models have shown considerable potential for medium-range weather forecasting by substantially improving computational efficiency while maintaining competitive forecast skill. This study evaluates the regional performance of Pangu-Weather initialized with three global numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems—ECMWF-IFS…
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The gain
In a five-month test against 123 weather stations in Shandong, Pangu-Weather started from ECMWF data cut 2 m temperature error by about 13.2% against ECMWF's own operational forecasts, improving at 38 of 40 lead times.
The problem
In the same Shandong test, Pangu-Weather runs started from CMA and NCEP data had larger errors than ECMWF forecasts at several longer lead times over coastal stations and at 500–700 hPa.
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What this doesn’t fix
Performance depended on the initial fields, variable, location and lead time, and upper-air temperature and wind gains varied by pressure level, station and lead time.
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1 on file- Atmospheredoi:10.3390/atmos17111087
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v2Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2492, v2: “Regional Evaluation of Pangu-Weather Driven by Multiple NWP Initial Fields over Shandong Province, China.” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2492 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 7582b0bc371ae3c9…
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Refiled from Problem to Trace: the study's main result, a 13.2% cut in temperature error, was missing from the record. The gain was added from the paper's abstract; the problem reading is unchanged.
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