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  • Geophysics and Climate Science
  • Data Analysis and Signal Processing

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  • Classical Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has limitations in analyzing spatiotemporal patterns within specific frequency bands.
  • Spectral PCA (sPCA) offers improvements but suffers from noise sensitivity and overfitting due to the frequency resolution-robustness trade-off, hindering result interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a robust and interpretable nonparametric spectral PCA method for analyzing geophysical time series.
  • To improve the identification and separation of spatiotemporal patterns, particularly in the presence of noise and overlapping modes.

Main Methods:

  • Implemented a nonparametric spectral PCA (sPCA) using the continuous analytic Morlet wavelet for robust cross-spectral matrix estimation.
  • Introduced eigenvector rotation to optimize spatial regularity (smoothness) of the extracted dynamical modes, creating rotated spectral PCA (rsPCA).
  • Validated rsPCA on synthetic data simulating propagating waves and applied it to global geopotential height (GPH) and sea surface temperature (SST) daily time series.

Main Results:

  • rsPCA demonstrated high performance and robustness to noise in identifying propagating wave patterns in synthetic data.
  • The method accurately captured atmospheric Rossby waves (3-60 day periods) in GPH and SST data.
  • rsPCA successfully identified El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) patterns (2-7 year periodicity) in SST data and unmixed high-frequency waves, revealing coherent spatial patterns with robust dynamics.

Conclusions:

  • The developed rsPCA method provides a significant advancement for analyzing complex geophysical time series by balancing frequency resolution and robustness.
  • rsPCA enhances the interpretability of spectral analysis results, enabling clearer identification of dominant spatiotemporal patterns like atmospheric waves and ENSO.
  • The method's effectiveness on real-world GPH and SST data highlights its utility for climate science research and understanding large-scale climate phenomena.