Probabilistic forecasts of extreme heatwaves using convolutional neural networks in a regime of lack of data

G Miloshevich, B Cozian, P Abry, P Borgnat… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Understanding extreme events and their probability is key for the study of climate change
impacts, risk assessment, adaptation, and the protection of living beings. Extreme …

Dynamics of activation in the voltage-sensing domain of Ciona intestinalis phosphatase Ci-VSP

SC Guo, R Shen, B Roux, AR Dinner - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensing phosphatase (Ci-VSP) is a membrane protein
containing a voltage-sensing domain (VSD) that is homologous to VSDs from voltage-gated …

Committor-consistent variational string method

Z He, C Chipot, B Roux - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The treatment of slow and rare transitions in the simulation of complex systems poses a
great computational challenge. A powerful approach to tackle this challenge is the string …

Data-driven methods to estimate the committor function in conceptual ocean models

V Jacques-Dumas, RM van Westen… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2023 - npg.copernicus.org
In recent years, several climate subsystems have been identified that may undergo a
relatively rapid transition compared to the changes in their forcing. Such transitions are rare …

[HTML][HTML] Learning forecasts of rare stratospheric transitions from short simulations

J Finkel, RJ Webber, EP Gerber… - Monthly Weather …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Rare events arising in nonlinear atmospheric dynamics remain hard to predict and attribute.
We address the problem of forecasting rare events in a prototypical example, sudden …

[HTML][HTML] Computing transition path theory quantities with trajectory stratification

BP Vani, J Weare, AR Dinner - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Transition path theory computes statistics from ensembles of reactive trajectories. A common
strategy for sampling reactive trajectories is to control the branching and pruning of …

Coupling rare event algorithms with data-based learned committor functions using the analogue Markov chain

D Lucente, J Rolland, C Herbert… - Journal of Statistical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Rare events play a crucial role in many physics, chemistry, and biology phenomena, when
they change the structure of the system, for instance in the case of multistability, or when …

Revealing the statistics of extreme events hidden in short weather forecast data

J Finkel, EP Gerber, DS Abbot, J Weare - AGU Advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme weather events have significant consequences, dominating the impact of climate on
society. While high‐resolution weather models can forecast many types of extreme events …

Variational deep learning of equilibrium transition path ensembles

AN Singh, DT Limmer - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a time-dependent variational method to learn the mechanisms of equilibrium
reactive processes and efficiently evaluate their rates within a transition path ensemble. This …

Predicting rare events using neural networks and short-trajectory data

J Strahan, J Finkel, AR Dinner, J Weare - Journal of computational physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimating the likelihood, timing, and nature of events is a major goal of modeling stochastic
dynamical systems. When the event is rare in comparison with the timescales of simulation …