A posteriori learning of quasi-geostrophic turbulence parametrization: an experiment on integration steps

Modeling the subgrid-scale dynamics of reduced models is a long standing open problem that finds application in ocean, atmosphere and climate predictions where direct numerical simulation (DNS) is impossible. While neural networks (NNs) have already been applied to a range of three-dimensional flows with success, two dimensional flows are more challenging because of the backscatter of energy from small to large scales. We show that learning a model jointly with the dynamical solver and a meaningful textita posteriori-based loss function lead to stable and realistic simulations when applied to quasi-geostrophic turbulence.