Explainable deep learning for insights in El Niño and river flows

Here, explainable deep learning and climate networks give insight into the dependencies between El Niño and river flow, with implications for machine learning-based earth system model coupling and climate-informed projections of water resources.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Nature Communications
Main Authors:	Yumin Liu, Kate Duffy, Jennifer G. Dy, Auroop R. Ganguly
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35968-5

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