Joint-embedding predictive representations for sparse-observation Caribbean atmospheric reconstruction
DRAFT — protocol; no new empirical results
Thesis link, prework and next step
- Thesis relationship
- Adds a learned prior to the thesis reconstruction objective; it does not replace physical observation operators.
- Data and evidence
- Monthly rainfall and prior forecast archives exist. Pressure-level event inputs, independent observations and frozen event masks still need a verified acquisition manifest.
- Prework
- Research-design v08; foundation-prior and local-field papers; existing rainfall and temperature comparisons. No JEPA training run is documented.
- Next checkpoint
- Freeze the observing-system experiment and compare JEPA, masked reconstruction and random initialisation with equal information and compute.