Patterns Identification and Data Mining in Weather and Climate
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Advances in computer power and observing systems has led to the generation and accumulation of large scale weather & climate data begging for exploration and analysis. Pattern Identification and Data Mining in Weather and Climate presents, from different perspectives, most available, novel and conventional, approaches used to analyze multivariate time series in climate science to identify patterns of variability, teleconnections, and reduce dimensionality. The book discusses different methods to identify patterns of spatiotemporal fields. The book also presents machine learning with a particular focus on the main methods used in climate science. Applications to atmospheric and oceanographic data are also presented and discussed in most chapters. To help guide students and beginners in the field of weather & climate data analysis, basic Matlab skeleton codes are given is some chapters, complemented with a list of software links toward the end of the text. A number of technical appendices are also provided, making the text particularly suitable for didactic purposes.
The topic of EOFs and associated pattern identification in space-time data sets has gone through an extraordinary fast development, both in terms of new insights and the breadth of applications. We welcome this text by Abdel Hannachi who not only has a deep insight in the field but has himself made several contributions to new developments in the last 15 years.
- Huug van den Dool, Climate Prediction Center, NCEP, College Park, MD, U.S.A.
Now that weather and climate science is producing ever larger and richer data sets, the topic of pattern extraction and interpretation has become an essential part. This book provides an up to date overview of the latest techniques and developments in this area.
- Maarten Ambaum, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, U.K.
This nicely and expertly written book covers a lot of ground, ranging from classical linear pattern identification techniques to more modern machine learning, illustrated with examples from weather & climate science. It will be very valuable both as a tutorial for graduate and postgraduate students and as a reference text for researchers and practitioners in the field.
- Frank Kwasniok, College of Engineering, University of Exeter, U.K.
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Abdelwaheb Hannachi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Meteorology of Stockholm University, MISU. He currently serves as editor in chief of Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. Abdel. teaches a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including dynamic meteorology, statistical climatology, and numerical weather prediction and data assimilation, and boundary layer turbulence. His main research interests are large-scale dynamics, teleconnections, nonlinearity in weather and climate in addition to extremes and forecasting.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 General Setting and Basic Terminology
Chapter 3 Empirical Orthogonal Functions
Chapter 4 Rotated and Simplified EOFs
Chapter 5 Complex/Hilbert EOFs
Chapter 6 Principal Oscillation Patterns and their extension
Chapter 7 Extended EOFs and SSA
Chapter 8 Persistent, Predictive, and Interpolated Patterns
Chapter 9 Principal Coordinates or Multidimensional Scaling
Chapter 10 Factor Analysis
Chapter 11 Projection Pursuit
Chapter 12 Independent Component Analysis
Chapter 13 Kernel EOFs
Chapter 14 Functional and Regularised EOFsChapter 15 Methods for Coupled Patterns
Chapter 16 Further topics
Chapter 17 Machine Learning
Appendix A Smoothing Techniques
Appendix B Introduction to Probability and Random Variables
Appendix C Stationary Time Series Analysis
Appendix D Matrix Algebra and Matrix Function
Appendix E Optimisation Algorithms
Appendix F Hilbert Space
Appendix G Systems of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations
Appendix H Links for Software Resource Material
Index