This repository is part of the larger M2LInES project. M2LInES involves developing climate model parameterizations using machine learning, in order to improve phyiscs and reduce systematic model biases. Here we use Convolutional Neural Networks to derive a mapping from model state variables to sea ice concentration analysis increments from an ice-ocean data assimilation experiment. The model which this study has been applied to is an ice-ocean configuration of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Seamless system for Prediction and EArth system Research (SPEAR) model.

The offline_learning folder contains code and data relating to the article Gregory et al., 2023a, with an example jupyter notebook of how the CNN was trained and model selection performed by carrying out 5-fold cross-validation tests.

The online_iceocean folder contains example scripts of how to implement the trained CNN into SPEAR ice-ocean simulations, by updating the sea ice restart files, as a way to correct short-forecasts. This methodology is outlined in the article Gregory et al., 2023b.

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