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Climate analysis & attribution

A Causal Inference Model Based on Random Forests to Identify the Effect of Soil Moisture on Precipitation

Lu Li, Wei Shangguan, Yi Deng, Jiafu Mao, jinjing Pan, Nan Wei, Hua Yuan, Shupeng Zhang, Yonggen Zhang, Yongjiu Dai

Journal of Hydrometeorology · · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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In one sentence. Random-forest-based Granger causal framework isolates soil moisture to precipitation feedback over the US and uses it to benchmark Earth system models for land-atmosphere coupling.

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Topic
Climate analysis & attribution, Benchmarks, datasets & evaluation
Type
New model or method
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Time scale
Seasonal to annual
Domain
Regional
Data
CMIP / climate model output, Other
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/jhm-d-19-0209.1 OpenAlex:W3019284798
Added
2026-10-22

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