Emulating the Climates of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets with Machine Learning
- đ¤ Speaker: Edward Stevenson (University of Cambridge)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:15 - 13:40
- đ Venue: Hoyle Lecture theatre + Zoom
Abstract
We present an emulator that predicts the 3D climate of rocky exoplanets in milliseconds, with calibrated uncertainties. Trained on simulations from multiple GCMs, it produces spatially resolved fields of temperature, humidity, winds, clouds, and radiation across a broad space of planet properties, including M-dwarf to G-star hosts and snowball worlds to moist greenhouses. Emulator errors are comparable to or smaller than the disagreement between GCMs themselves.
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Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:15-13:40