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Reliability of Inference of Directed Climate Networks Using Conditional Mutual Information

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    SYSNO ASEP0393073
    Document TypeJ - Journal Article
    R&D Document TypeJournal Article
    Subsidiary JČlánek ve WOS
    TitleReliability of Inference of Directed Climate Networks Using Conditional Mutual Information
    Author(s) Hlinka, Jaroslav (UIVT-O) RID, SAI, ORCID
    Hartman, David (UIVT-O) RID, SAI, ORCID
    Vejmelka, Martin (UIVT-O) SAI, RID, ORCID
    Runge, J. (DE)
    Marwan, N. (DE)
    Kurths, J. (DE)
    Paluš, Milan (UIVT-O) RID, SAI, ORCID
    Source TitleEntropy. - : MDPI
    Roč. 15, č. 6 (2013), s. 2023-2045
    Number of pages23 s.
    Languageeng - English
    CountryCH - Switzerland
    Keywordscausality ; climate ; nonlinearity ; transfer entropy ; network ; stability
    Subject RIVBB - Applied Statistics, Operational Research
    R&D ProjectsGCP103/11/J068 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
    Institutional supportUIVT-O - RVO:67985807
    UT WOS000320773000005
    EID SCOPUS84880002507
    DOI10.3390/e15062023
    AnnotationAcross geosciences, many investigated phenomena relate to specific complex systems consisting of intricately intertwined interacting subsystems. Such dynamical complex systems can be represented by a directed graph, where each link denotes an existence of a causal relation, or information exchange between the nodes. For geophysical systems such as global climate, these relations are commonly not theoretically known but estimated from recorded data using causality analysis methods. These include bivariate nonlinear methods based on information theory and their linear counterpart. The trade-off between the valuable sensitivity of nonlinear methods to more general interactions and the potentially higher numerical reliability of linear methods may affect inference regarding structure and variability of climate networks. We investigate the reliability of directed climate networks detected by selected methods and parameter settings, using a stationarized model of dimensionality-reduced surface air temperature data from reanalysis of 60-year global climate records. Overall, all studied bivariate causality methods provided reproducible estimates of climate causality networks, with the linear approximation showing higher reliability than the investigated nonlinear methods. On the example dataset, optimizing the investigated nonlinear methods with respect to reliability increased the similarity of the detected networks to their linear counterparts, supporting the particular hypothesis of the near-linearity of the surface air temperature reanalysis data.
    WorkplaceInstitute of Computer Science
    ContactTereza Šírová, sirova@cs.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 800
    Year of Publishing2014
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