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Machine learning and artificial intelligence to aid climate change research and preparedness
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Abstract Climate change challenges societal functioning, likely requiring considerable adaptation to cope with future altered weather patterns. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have advanced dramatically, triggering breakthroughs in other research sectors, and recently suggested as aiding climate analysis (Reichstein et al 2019 Nature 566 195–204, Schneider et al 2017 Geophys. Res. Lett. 44 12396–417). Although a considerable number of isolated Earth System features have been analysed with ML techniques, more generic application to understand better the full climate system has not occurred. For instance, ML may aid teleconnection identification, where complex feedbacks make characterisation difficult from direct equation analysis or visualisation of measurements and Earth System model (ESM) diagnostics. Artificial intelligence (AI) can then build on discovered climate connections to provide enhanced warnings of approaching weather features, including extreme events. While ESM development is of paramount importance, we suggest a parallel emphasis on utilising ML and AI to understand and capitalise far more on existing data and simulations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Huntingford, C., Jeffers, E. S., Bonsall, M. B., Christensen, H. M., Lees, T., & Yang, H.
- Affiliations
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Peking University (CN)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Environmental Research Letters
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2019-11-22
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 124007
- ISSN
- 1748-9326 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2990621239
- Cited by
- 469
- References
- 116
- Citations by year
- 2026: 65 · 2025: 84 · 2024: 90 · 2023: 66 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 89 · 2020: 20
- FWCI
- 21.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Environmental Research Letters (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council) (acceptedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Greater South Information System
- Funders
- Natural Environment Research Council (CEH National Capability Fund)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence Applications
- Keywords
- machine learning, artificial intelligence, climate change, climate change adaptation, climate feedbacks, Earth system models, extreme weather events, early warning systems, climate data analysis
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