The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has published a critique of ML by Leonard A Smith and Alan Thorpe. It compares the role and value of physics-based and statistical models in weather and climate forecasting, and tempers the ebulition around AI/ML.

The article content is accessible to non-specialists in either ML or meteorology.

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https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-25-0214.1/BAMS-D-25-0214.1.pdf