Deep Clustering for Climate: Analyzing Teleconnections through Learned Categorical States

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22909v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:12:15 GMT
• Title: Deep Clustering for Climate: Analyzing Teleconnections through Learned Categorical States
• Abstract summary: Masked Siamese Networks are used to discretize climate time series into semantically rich clusters.<n>Our findings highlight the potential of self-supervised discretization as a tool for climate data analysis.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding and representing complex climate variability is essential for both scientific analysis and predictive modeling. However, identifying meaningful climate regimes from raw variables is challenging, as they exhibit high noise and nonlinear dependencies. In this work, we explore the use of Masked Siamese Networks to discretize climate time series into semantically rich clusters. Focusing on daily minimum and maximum temperature, we show that the resulting representations: (i) yield clusters that reflect meaningful climate states under our modeling assumptions, offering a simplified representation for downstream use; (ii) enable sampling and analysis of specific climate scenarios; and (iii) exhibit statistical associations with El Niño events, underscoring their scientific relevance. Our findings highlight the potential of self-supervised discretization as a tool for climate data analysis and open avenues for incorporating richer climate indicators in future work.

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