Articles | Volume 28, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-28-409-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-28-409-2021
Research article
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03 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 03 Sep 2021

The blessing of dimensionality for the analysis of climate data

Bo Christiansen

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In geophysics we often need to analyse large samples of high-dimensional fields. Fortunately but counterintuitively, such high dimensionality can be a blessing, and we demonstrate how this allows simple analytical results to be derived. These results include estimates of correlations between sample members and how the sample mean depends on the sample size. We show that the properties of high dimensionality with success can be applied to climate fields, such as those from ensemble modelling.
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