Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31201306.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-10105-3 and PMC identifier 6572812.
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Abstract
The heart of the scientific enterprise is a rational effort to understand the causes behind the phenomena we observe. In large-scale complex dynamical systems such as the Earth system, real experiments are rarely feasible. However, a rapidly increasing amount of observational and simulated data opens up the use of novel data-driven causal methods beyond the commonly adopted correlation techniques. Here, we give an overview of causal inference frameworks and identify promising generic application cases common in Earth system sciences and beyond. We discuss challenges and initiate the benchmark platform causeme.net to close the gap between method users and developers.