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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1991-962X</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2025-1889</article-id>
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<article-title>HOPE: An Arbitrary-Order Non-Oscillatory Finite-Volume Shallow Water Dynamical Core with Automatic Differentiation</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhou</surname>
<given-names>Lilong</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9818-7972</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xue</surname>
<given-names>Wei</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Department of Model Technology, CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC), Beijing, 100081, China</addr-line>
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<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, 100081, China</addr-line>
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<day>27</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>2025</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>31</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Lilong Zhou</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>This study presents the High Order Prediction Environment (HOPE), an automatically differentiable, non-oscillatory finite-volume dynamical core for shallow water equations on the cubed-sphere grid. HOPE integrates four key features: (1) arbitrary high-order accuracy through genuine two-dimensional reconstruction schemes; (2) essential non-oscillation via adaptive polynomial order reduction in discontinuous regions; (3) exact mass conservation inherited from finite-volume discretization; (4) automatically differentiable and (5) GPU-native scalability through PyTorch-based implementation. Another innovation is the intensive panel boundary treatment, which eliminates numerical instability during using high order reconstruction scheme, meanwhile, simplifies the interpolation process to a matrix-vector multiplication without losing accuracy. Numerical experiments demonstrates the capabilities of HOPE: The 11th-order scheme reduces errors to near double-precision round-off levels in steady-state geostrophic flow tests on coarse 1&amp;deg;&amp;times;1&amp;deg; grids. Maintenance of Rossby-Haurwitz waves over 100 simulation days without crashing. A cylindrical dam-break test case confirms the genuinely two-dimensional WENO scheme exhibits significantly better isotropy compared to dimension-by-dimension approaches. Two implementations are developed: a Fortran version for convergence analysis and a PyTorch version leveraging automatic differentiation and GPU acceleration. The PyTorch implementation maps reconstruction and quadrature operation to 2D convolution and Einstein summation respectively, achieving about 2&amp;times; speedup on single NVIDIA RTX3090 GPU versus Dual Intel E5-2699v4 CPUs execution. This design enables seamless coupling with neural network parameterizations, positioning HOPE as a foundational tool for next-generation differentiable atmosphere models.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>U2242210</award-id>
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