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# Earth-2 Checkpoints: DLESyM-V1-ERA5

## Description:

DLESyM-V1-ERA5 is an ensemble forecast model for global earth system modeling.
This model includes an atmosphere and ocean component, using atmospheric
variables as well as the sea-surface temperature on a HEALPix nside=64
(approximately 1 degree) resolution grid. This model package includes several
individual trained checkpoints for the atmosphere and ocean components, which
can be used to improve model variability in ensembles. The model architecture
is a U-Net with padding operations modified to support using the HEALPix grid.

For training recipies see [PhysicsNeMo](https://github.com/NVIDIA/physicsnemo/tree/main/examples/weather/dlwp_healpix), for inference [Earth2Studio](https://nvidia.github.io/earth2studio/examples/14_dlesym_example.html#sphx-glr-examples-14-dlesym-example-py).

This model is for research and development only.

### License/Terms of Use: 
**Governing Terms**: Use of this model is governed by the [NVIDIA Community Model License](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-community-models-license/).

### Deployment Geography:
Global

### Use Case:
Industry, academic, and government research teams interested in subseasonal-to-seasonal weather forecasting, and climate modeling.

### Release Date:
NGC 05/12/2025

## Reference:

 - [Advancing Parsimonious Deep Learning Weather Prediction using the HEALPix Mesh](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06253) <br> 
 - [A Deep Learning Earth System Model for Efficient Simulation of the Observed Climate](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16247) <br>

## Model Architecture: 

**Architecture Type:** DLESyM uses two UNet architectures adapted to the HEALPix grid,
one for each of the atmosphere and ocean components.  <br>
**Network Architecture:** UNet <br>

## Input:

**Input Type:**

- Tensor (9 surface and pressure-level variables)

**Input Format:** PyTorch Tensor  <br>
**Input Parameters:**

- Six Dimensional (6D) (batch, lead time, variable, face, height, width) <br>

**Other Properties Related to Input:** 

- Input latitude/longitude grid: 0.25 degree 721 x 1440, regridded to HEALPix nside=64
grid in "XY" format with a north origin and clockwise order
  - See `HEALPIX_PAD_XY` in the [earth2grid package](https://github.com/NVlabs/earth2grid)
    for specific details
- Input state weather variables: `z500`, `tau300-700`, `z1000`, `t2m`, `tcwv`, `t850`,
`z250`, `ws10m`, `sst`
  - `tau300-700` (geopotential thickness) is defined as the difference between `z300`
  and `z700` geopotential levels.
  - `ws10m` (wind speed at 10m above surface) is defined as the square root of the sum
  of the squared zonal and meridional wind components, i.e. `sqrt(u10m **2 + v10m **2)`.

For variable name information, review the `HRRR` Lexicon at [Earth2Studio](https://github.com/NVIDIA/earth2studio).
Review the `config.yaml` provided in the model package for information on the input lead
times required by the model.

## Output:

**Output Type:** Tensor (9 surface and pressure-level variables) <br>
**Output Format:** Pytorch Tensor <br>
**Output Parameters:** Six Dimensional (6D) (batch, lead time, variable, face, height,
width)  <br>
**Other Properties Related to Output:**

- Output latitude/longitude grid: 0.25 degree 721 x 1440, regridded to HEALPix nside=64
grid in "XY" format with a north origin and clockwise order.
  - See `HEALPIX_PAD_XY` in the [earth2grid package](https://github.com/NVlabs/earth2grid)
    for specific details
- Output state weather variables: `z500`, `tau300-700`, `z1000`, `t2m`, `tcwv`, `t850`,
`z250`, `ws10m`, `sst`   <br>
  - `tau300-700` (geopotential thickness) is defined as the difference between `z300`
  and `z700` geopotential levels.
  - `ws10m` (wind speed at 10m above surface) is defined as the square root of the sum
  of the squared zonal and meridional wind components, i.e. `sqrt(u10m **2 + v10m **2)`.

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems.
By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA
libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to
CPU-only solutions.

## Software Integration

**Runtime Engine:** Pytorch <br>
**Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:** <br>
* NVIDIA Ampere <br>
* NVIDIA Hopper <br>
* NVIDIA Turing <br>


**Supported Operating System:**
* Linux <br>


## Model Version: 

**Model Version:** v1 <br>

# Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets: 

**Total size (in number of data points):** 110,960 <br>
**Total number of datasets:** 1<br>
**Dataset partition:** training 90%, testing 5%, validation 5% <br>

## Training Dataset:

**Link:** [ERA5](https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/) <br>

**Data Collection Method by dataset** <br>
* Automatic/Sensors <br>

**Labeling Method by dataset** <br>
* Automatic/Sensors <br>

**Properties:**
ERA5 data for the period 1980-2015. ERA5 provides hourly estimates of various
atmospheric, land, and oceanic climate variables. The data covers the Earth on a 30km
grid and resolves the atmosphere at 137 levels. We re-grid to a healpix-64 grid that
corresponds to an approximate 1 degree lat/lon grid. <br>


## Testing Dataset:

**Link:** [ERA5](https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/) <br>

**Data Collection Method by dataset** <br>

* Automatic/Sensors <br>

**Labeling Method by dataset** <br>
* Automatic/Sensors <br>

**Properties:**
ERA5 data for the period 2016-2017. ERA5 provides hourly estimates of various
atmospheric, land, and oceanic climate variables. The data covers the Earth on a 30km
grid and resolves the atmosphere at 137 levels. We re-grid to a healpix-64 grid that
corresponds to an approximate 1 degree lat/lon grid. <br>

## Evaluation Dataset:

**Link:** [ERA5](https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/) <br>

**Data Collection Method by dataset** <br>
* Automatic/Sensors <br>

**Labeling Method by dataset** <br>
* Automatic/Sensors <br>

**Properties:**
ERA5 data for the period 2018-2019. ERA5 provides hourly estimates of various
atmospheric, land, and oceanic climate variables. The data covers the Earth on a 30km
grid and resolves the atmosphere at 137 levels. We re-grid to a healpix-64 grid that
corresponds to an approximate 1 degree lat/lon grid. <br>

## Inference:

**Acceleration Engine:** Pytorch <br>
**Test Hardware:**
* A100 <br>
* H100 <br>
* L40S <br>


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