Leveraging Artificial Intelligence To Address Climate Change
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence To Address Climate Change
K. Swathi5
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation
Vaddeswaram, A.P, India
Uncertainty in Predictions:
AI models may struggle with uncertainties inherent in
climate systems. Climate is influenced by numerous
variables, and predicting complex interactions accurately
can be challenging, leading to uncertainties in long-term
forecasts.
Complex Interactions:
Capturing the intricate interplay between variables like
ocean currents, atmospheric circulation, and human activity
within climate models is a major challenge.
Long-Term Forecasts :
Predicting climate changes decades into the future
Fig 1 The Schematic Representation of a Machine Learning becomes increasingly unreliable due to the accumulation of
Process for Climate Prediction. uncertainties over time.
Furthermore, AI functions as a wise advisor by offering
These challenges highlight the need for:
intelligent suggestions on pollution reduction or adapting to
changes, guiding the formulation of effective climate
Improved Data Collection:
policies. As references from the several research paper and Expanding global climate collection efforts,
article we came to know that there are some limitations
particularly in underrepresented regions, is crucial.
faced during the process.
Data Bias Detection and Correction:
II. CHALLENGES OCCURRED Techniques to identify and mitigate biases in climate
datasets are indispensable for ensuring the reliability of AI
Data Dependency:
models.
AI heavily relies on the data it's trained on. If the data
is incomplete or biased, the AI's predictions and suggestions More Efficient AI Algorithms:
may be skewed or inaccurate, potentially leading to Developing more efficient AI algorithms that require
misguided climate policies. less computational power can address resource limitations.
Incompleteness: Uncertainty Quantification:
Climate data collection can be sparse, especially in the AI models should be able to quantify the level of
developing regions. Missing data can lead to biases in the uncertainty associated with their predictions, allowing for a
model and inaccurate predictions. more understanding of potential climate futures.
Bias: By addressing these challenges, AI can become a
If the training data is biased towards certain weather powerful tool for Enhancing climate predictions to inform
patterns or regions, the AI model might lack the capability to efficient mitigation and adaptation strategies.
reliably forecast future changes in other areas or under
unforeseen circumstances. III. LITERATURE REVIEW
Resource Intensiveness: [1] AI-enable Adjusting to a warming world by using
AI solutions, particularly deep learning models, can be less water, planting smart, building strong, planning for
computationally expensive and require substantial resources. emergencies, and working together. involve expert oversight
This might present obstacles to widespread acceptance and interpretation to ensure effective and ethical use.
especially in regions with limited technological Projects Deltares in the Netherlands employs AI to model
infrastructure. sea level increase impacts on coastal infrastructure,
combining leveraging machine learning with large datasets
Accessibility: to forecast future climate changes Ethical considerations,
Resource-limited regions may not have the transparency, inclusivity, and bias mitigation are crucial in
infrastructure to run these models, hindering widespread developing AI- powered different areas can adapt to climate
adoption of AI-based climate prediction tools. change by using smarter protections of all. Jain, H.,
Dhupper, R., Shrivastava, A. et al. AI- enabled strategies for
Sustainability: climate change adaptation: protecting communities,
The high energy consumption of training this models infrastructure, and businesses from the impacts of climate
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employed for analyzing time series datasets forecasting of
environmental variables. The study focuses on forecasting
snow cover, temperature, and normalized difference
vegetation index (NDVI) in the Himachal Pradesh region
using ANN and LSTM(Long Short Term Memory) models.
ANN, specifically a Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP), is
employed to learn complex patterns in structured data, while
LSTM, a type of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), is
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weather pattern recognition. A more complex model methods (Deep Learning, Random Forest, XGBoost ,ANN
(CNN4) performed better than a simpler one (CNN2). and SVM) in these topics. Meteorological fields in NWP
CNN4 achieved over 93% accuracy in both summer and studies, such as wind, precipitation, temperature, air
winter re-identification tasks. This means the model excelled pressure, and radiation, and the most used methods, involves
at recognizing repeating weather patterns. With an accuracy ANN and Deep machine learning methods used in weather
margin of ±0.2%, the results were highly consistent. This forecasting and climate analysis, exploring its applications
paves the way for more precise weather forecasting. and future possibilities. Chris Huntingford1, Elizabeth S
Powerful image-like analysis (CNNs) excels at recognizing Jeffers2, Michael BBonsall2, HannahM Christensen3 and
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intelligence (AI) to aid the research of change of climate. accuracy with metrics like mean error (MAE) - but for
Machine learning unlocks hidden insights from climate data temperature, a "goodness of fit" score (R²) is more
and simulations. This empowers smarter predictions and important. This is because temperature naturally fluctuates
adaptation strategies and to reduce inter-ESM uncertainty. daily, so capturing the overall trend matters more than
ML and AI can be used to understand and capitalize on pinpointing exact values. The research also addressed the
existing data and simulations, and to reduce inter-ESM black-box nature of neural networks by proposing a method
uncertainty. Among the techniques employed are Artificial to interpret the significance of input variables on the output.
Neural Networks (ANN),Convolutional Neural Local weather data yielded the most accurate microclimate
Network(CNN), and others Gaussian Process (GP) predictions, but global data (ERA5) served as a good
Regression, and others. AI smarts analyse climate data, alternative when local data was missing. This means we can
pinpointing risks and guiding better adaptation. Machine still make informed predictions even in areas with limited
learning muscles power climate solutions, from smarter weather stations. This research underscores the potential for
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. variations with high accuracy. By combing global and local
This study analyses 500 recent scientific articles exploring data sources and employing interpretable models,
how machine learning is revolutionizing climate and researchers can provide valuable insights into local climate
weather prediction. The article highlights the most common dynamics, enabling better-informed decision-making in
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Table 1 A Concise Comparison of the Performance Metrics Across Different AI Algorithms for the Weather Prediction on a
Dataset
Metrics Long Short-Term Memory Convolutional Neural Network Feedforward Neural Network
(LSTM) (CNN) (FNN)
Accuracy 98.39% 97.03% 98.19%
Recall 98.14% 97.21% 96.62%
Precision 98.46% 98.74% 96.29%
F1 Score 98.80% 97.46% 97.44%
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