ClimDetect: A Benchmark Dataset for Climate Change Detection and Attribution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15993v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:58:53 GMT
• Title: ClimDetect: A Benchmark Dataset for Climate Change Detection and Attribution
• Authors: Sungduk Yu, Brian L. White, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, Musashi Hinck, Matthew Lyle Olson, Tung Nguyen, Vasudev Lal,
• Abstract summary: We introduce ClimDetect, a standardized dataset of over 816k daily climate snapshots. ClimDetect integrates various input and target variables used in past research, ensuring consistency. Our open-access data and code serve as a benchmark for advancing climate science through improved model evaluations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Detecting and attributing temperature increases due to climate change is crucial for understanding global warming and guiding adaptation strategies. The complexity of distinguishing human-induced climate signals from natural variability has challenged traditional detection and attribution (D&A) approaches, which seek to identify specific "fingerprints" in climate response variables. Deep learning offers potential for discerning these complex patterns in expansive spatial datasets. However, lack of standard protocols has hindered consistent comparisons across studies. We introduce ClimDetect, a standardized dataset of over 816k daily climate snapshots, designed to enhance model accuracy in identifying climate change signals. ClimDetect integrates various input and target variables used in past research, ensuring comparability and consistency. We also explore the application of vision transformers (ViT) to climate data, a novel and modernizing approach in this context. Our open-access data and code serve as a benchmark for advancing climate science through improved model evaluations. ClimDetect is publicly accessible via Huggingface dataet respository at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ClimDetect/ClimDetect.

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