Timing of emergence of CONUS summertime temperatures using explainable neural networks
Zachary Labe - Research Website - @ZLabe
Scripts/: Main Python scripts/functions used in data analysis and plottingrequirements.txt: List of environments and modules associated with the most recent version of this project. A Python Anaconda3 Distribution was used for our analysis. Tools including NCL, CDO, and NCO were also used for initial data processing.
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- [1] Labe, Z.M., N.C. Johnson, and T.L. Delworth (2024), Changes in United States summer temperatures revealed by explainable neural networks. Earth's Future, DOI:10.1029/2023EF003981 [HTML][SUMMARY][BibTeX]
- [5] Labe, Z.M. Applications of machine learning for climate change and variability, Department of Environmental Sciences Seminar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (Feb 2023) (Invited).
- [4] Labe, Z.M., N.C. Johnson, and T.L. Delworth. Distinguishing the regional emergence of United States summer temperatures between observations and climate model large ensembles, 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science, Baltimore, MD (Jan 2024). [Abstract][Slides]
- [3] Labe, Z.M., Climate change extremes by season in the United States, Hershey Horticulture Society, Hershey, PA (Sep 2023). [Slides]
- [2] Labe, Z.M. Using explainable AI to identify key regions of climate change in GFDL SPEAR large ensembles, GFDL Lunchtime Seminar Series, Princeton, NJ, USA (Mar 2023). [Slides]
- [1] Labe, Z.M. Forced climate signals with explainable AI and large ensembles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Student/Postdoc Seminar, Princeton University, NJ, USA (Feb 2023). [Slides]