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CloudFlow: a flow matching model to generate high-resolution cloud structures

Abstract:

Our limited understanding of clouds is the dominant source of uncertainty in future climate predictions. Understanding how changing atmospheric environmental conditions constrain cloud organisational patterns and their radiative effects is key to understanding their impact on future climate change. We present CloudFlow, a flow matching model that is able to generate high-resolution cloud structures conditioned on coarse-scale atmospheric conditions. Our model generates realistic cloud structures that match the spectra and distributions of the original high-resolution scenes. CloudFlow introduces a new modeling regime to study how atmospheric environmental conditions impact cloud morphologies which will contribute to an improved understanding of cloud feedbacks, the cloud response to a changing climate and its effect on climate itself.

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Accepted
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
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University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
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Physics
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Funder identifier:
https://ror.org/001aqnf71
Grant:
10113603


Publisher:
OpenReview
Article number:
53
Publication date:
2026-05-30
Acceptance date:
2026-06-05
Event title:
43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)
Event location:
Seoul, South Korea
Event website:
https://icml.cc/Conferences/2026
Event start date:
2026-07-06
Event end date:
2026-07-11


Language:
English
Pubs id:
2442400
Local pid:
pubs:2442400
Deposit date:
2026-07-07
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