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Use of AI and ML can drive new knowledge about how the Earth system works

Three recently published articles involving Digital Futures Faculty members Georgia Destouni, Zahra Kalantari and Carla Ferreira show how AI and Machine Learning use can drive new knowledge about how the Earth system works and how climate extremes (in these cases, drought) can be predicted around Sweden and the world.

Cover of Water Resources Research journal, October 2023, Volume 59, Issue 10. The background features a dynamic, top-down view of swirling blue ocean waves with white foam.

ChatGPT in Hydrology and Earth Sciences: Opportunities, Prospects and Concerns, Foroumandi E, Moradkhani H, Sanchez-Vila X, Singha K, Castelletti A, Destouni G, Water Resources Research, 2023 (in press). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036288


The cover of the journal Ecological Indicators features the title and subtitle with four circular images depicting nature, animals, a report, and laboratory equipment, all connected by arrows in a cycle.

Predicting agricultural drought indicators: ML approaches across wide-ranging climate and land use conditions, Kan J-C, Ferreira CSS, Destouni G, Haozhi P, Vieira Passos M, Barquet K, Kalantari Z, Ecological Indicators, 154, 110524, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110524


Cover of Earth’s Future journal, July 2023 issue, featuring a misty forest landscape with low clouds above green treetops and distant hills under a pale sky. AGU and Wiley logos are also visible.

Contrasting drought propagation into the terrestrial water cycle between dry and wet regions, Li W., Reichstein M., O, S., May C., Destouni G., Migliavacca M., Kraft B., Weber U., Orth R., Earth’s Future, 11, e2022EF003441, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003441


 Find out more in this article on One Earth – Global patterns in water flux partitioning: Irrigated and rainfed agriculture drives asymmetrical flux to vegetation over runoff Graphical

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