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A Bayesian Network Approach to Identity Climate Teleconnections Within Homogeneous Precipitation Regions in Ecuador

  • Renato Ávila
  • Daniela BallariEmail author
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Part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 1099)

Abstract

Reliable precipitation predictions require an understanding of climate teleconnections over precipitation. In Ecuador, these teleconnections were studied with correlation methods, but multivariate studies with several climatic indexes simultaneously has been less study. The objective of this work is to carry out a multivariate study using Bayesian networks to identify the influence of climate indexes in homogenous precipitation regions in Ecuador. The climate teleconnections, defined as the correlation between precipitation satellite data and climate indexes, as well as the regionalization of seasonality of precipitation were used to learn a Bayesian network in R software. It was characterized the structure and strength of the relationship between the teleconnections and the precipitation. Additionally, three types of belief propagation were used: regions to climate index, climate index to regions, and interactions between indexes. This was useful to determine whether the influence of a climate index is homogeneous throughout the country or varies by region, as well as to identify interactions between different indexes. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of precipitation in Ecuador, and to promote making evidence-based water resource decisions.

Keywords

Climate teleconnections Bayesian networks Probability propagation 
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Acknowledgements

This study has been financed by the Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia (CEDIA) through the project CEPRA XII “Spatial representation of climatic teleconnections in the precipitation of Ecuador”.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Carrera de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Telemática, Facultad de Ciencias de la AdministraciónUniversidad del AzuayCuencaEcuador
  2. 2.Universidad del AzuayCuencaEcuador

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