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Quick Tips for ESS Machine Learning Projects

12 February 2024

Your idea of what's entailed in setting up a supervised Machine Learning (ML) project as an Earth Systems scientist is probably not as fanciful as what an image generation algorithm came up with. But there are many little decisions ML practitioners make along the way when starting an Earth Systems Science (ESS) ML project. This article provides some tips and ideas to consider as you're getting started. These tips are not in any particular order, and like all things related to ML projects they depend on the specific types of data and project goals.

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R²: Downsides and Potential Pitfalls for ESS ML Prediction

20 December 2023

Always plot your data!

Regression analysis is a fundamental concept in the field of machine learning (ML), in that it helps establish relationships among the variables by estimating how one variable affects the other.

The coefficient of determination, R² (pronounced “R squared”), is a measure that provides information about how well the regression line suggested by a numerical model approximates the actual data (often referred to as “goodness of fit”).

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Self Organizing Maps for Earth Systems Science

08 December 2023

Representation of nodes in a Self Organizing Map.

A self-organizing map (SOM), sometimes known as a Kohonen map after its originator the Finnish professor Teuvo Kohonen, is an unsupervised machine learning technique used to produce a low-dimensional representation of a higher dimensional data set. SOMs are a specific type of artificial neural network, but use a different training strategy compared to more traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). SOMs can be used for clustering, dimensionality reduction, feature extraction, and classification — all of which suggest that they can be important tools for understanding large Earth Systems Science (ESS) datasets.

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NSF Seeks Input on Public Access Plan

28 November 2023

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking public input from the science and engineering research and education community on implementing the NSF Public Access Plan 2.0.

The Public Access Plan 2.0 is an update to NSF current public access requirements in response to recent White House Office of Science and Technology Policy guidance; among other things, it addresses potential equity impacts of public access requirements.

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Radio Occultation Data from COSMIC Available in the IDD

08 February 2023

The Unidata Program Center is partnering with UCAR's COSMIC program to provide radio occultation data provided by Spire Global. The products described below are now available via the Internet Data Distribution (IDD) network. Data are on the EXP feed with a typical total volume of 80-110 MB per hour.

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