Transformer based super-resolution downscaling for regional reanalysis: Full domain vs tiling approaches
Super-resolution (SR) is a promising cost-effective downscaling methodology for producing high-resolution climate information from coarser counterparts. A particular application is downscaling regional reanalysis outputs (predictand) from the driving global counterparts (predictor). This study conducts an intercomparison of various SR downscaling methods focusing on temperature and using the CERRA reanalysis (5.5 km resolution, produced with a regional atmospheric model driven by ERA5) as example. The method proposed in this work is the Swin transformer and two alternative methods are used as benchmark (fully convolutional U-Net and convolutional and dense DeepESD) as well as the simple bicubic interpolation. We compare two approaches, the standard one using the full domain as input and a more scalable tiling approach, dividing the full domain into tiles that are used as input. The methods are trained to downscale CERRA surface temperature, based on temperature information from the driving ERA5; in addition, the tiling approach includes static orographic information. We show that the tiling approach, which requires spatial transferability, comes at the cost of a lower performance (although it outperforms some full-domain benchmarks), but provides an efficient scalable solution that allows SR reduction on a pan-European scale and is valuable for real-time applications.
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