Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems

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Researchers have developed a new machine learning framework for Earth-system simulations that moves beyond passive forecasting to enable interactive AI

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Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems

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arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhihao Wang, Ruichen Wang, Ruohan Li, Lei Ma, George Hurtt, Xiaowei Jia, Gengchen Mai, Shaowen Wang, Yiqun Xie · 2026-09-10 04:00

Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems

arXiv:2609.08855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning emulators have become essential for accelerating expensive Earth-system simulations, but most existing approaches remain passive forecasters: they reproduce simulator trajectories under prescribed forcings without…