MMClima: A Framework for Multimodal Climate Science Data and Evaluation
Climate change research increasingly requires AI systems that reason across text, dynamic visual content, and scientific figures, yet existing climate QA benchmarks are small, mostly textual, and cover a narrow range of models. We introduce MMClima, a large-scale multimodal climate question answering framework with 104k+ expert-validated question-answer pairs spanning articles, video transcriptions, and figures across five core climate science domains. MMClima is constructed via automated claim extraction and QA synthesis with human-in-the-loop validation to ensure both scale and reliability. Using MMClima, we benchmark state-of-the-art multimodal language models on tasks requiring factual recall, visual interpretation, and cross-modal synthesis. We additionally fine-tune on the textual split to produce mmclima-70b-txt, a domain-adapted baseline that outperforms strong open- and closed-source models on textual QA. We release the dataset, evaluation pipeline, fine-tuned model weights, and data creation framework to support standardized multimodal evaluation for climate science.
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