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HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

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HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

We introduce HiRO-ACEv2, the newest update to our High Resolution Output Ai2 Climate Emulator (HiRO-ACE) system. HiROv2 can reproduce even extremely rare rain, wind, and pressure events with high accuracy, while the full system can generate global 3 km climate data at about 1/300th the cost of X-SHiELD, a high-resolution global atmospheric model that explicitly simulates storms and other small-scale weather.

HiRO-ACE, introduced earlier in 2026, has two parts: ACE, an AI model that operates at a coarser 100 km resolution, and HiRO, a model that sharpens those coarse outputs into fine 3 km detail. The biggest change in HiRO-ACEv2 is the new downscaling model, HiROv2, which can now 1) predict several high-resolution fields at once instead of just rainfall, so it can capture a much wider range of extreme weather, and 2) has improved skill in predicting extreme events.

Our main focus with HiRO-ACEv2 was to simulate extreme events well. Changes to how we train HiROv2 improved its ability to reproduce the most intense rain, wind, and pressure values. When given coarsened X-SHiELD data, it matches the target simulation's high-resolution statistics to within 3%, even for events so rare they occur only once in a million data points. It also accurately estimates the total energy of tropical cyclones, including storms it never saw during training, and generates hurricanes with realistic eyes and rain bands, though winds and pressure around the eye remain somewhat more lopsided than in X-SHiELD. Additionally, HiROv2 realistically generates strong winds flowing down mountain slopes.


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