• DocumentCode
    3609297
  • Title

    Can Topic Modeling Shed Light on Climate Extremes?

  • Author

    Cheng Tang ; Monteleoni, Claire

  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    43
  • Lastpage
    52
  • Abstract
    Understanding changes in climate extremes is an urgent challenge. Topic modeling techniques from natural language processing can help scientists learn climate patterns from data. The authors´ work extracts global climate patterns from multivariate climate data, modeling relations between variables via latent topics and discovering the probability of each climate topic appearing at different geographical locations.
  • Keywords
    climatology; data analysis; geophysics computing; natural language processing; climate extremes; climate pattern probability; geographical locations; global climate pattern extraction; latent topics; multivariate climate data; natural language processing; topic modeling techniques; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Data models; Hidden Markov models; Meteorology; Tensile stress; climate extremes; climate informatics; latent Dirichlet allocation; machine learning; scientific computing; topic models; unsupervised learning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computing in Science Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1521-9615
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSE.2015.128
  • Filename
    7310910