Estimating Causal Effects of Greenland Blocking on Arctic Sea Ice Melt using Deep Learning Technique
23 Jul 2024 | Contributor(s):: Sahara Ali, Omar Faruque, Yiyi Huang, Md Osman Gani, Aneesh Subramanian, Nicole Schlegel, Jianwu Wang, Josephine Namayanja (contributor)
Over the recent decades, Earth scientists have noted a more pronounced shift in climate patterns near the polar regions, specifically the Arctic, in comparison to the rest of the Earth. The increased warming is largely attributed to the diminishing ice cover in the Arctic, which causes solar...
Quantifying Causes of Arctic Amplification via Deep Learning based Time-series Causal Inference
23 Jul 2024 | Contributor(s):: Sahara Ali, Omar Faruque, Yiyi Huang, Aneesh Subramanian, Nicole-Jienne Shchlegel, Md Osman Gani, Jianwu Wang, Josephine Namayanja (contributor)
The warming of the Arctic, also known as Arctic amplification, is led by several atmospheric and oceanic drivers. However, the details of its underlying thermodynamic causes are still unknown. Inferring the causal effects of atmospheric processes on sea ice melt using fixed treatment effect...