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Similarly, statistical methods drawing upon established climate teleconnections have low prediction skill due to the complex nature of the climate system. Recently, promising data-driven approaches have been proposed, but they often suffer from overparameterization and overfitting due to the short observational record, and they often do not account for spatiotemporal dependencies among covariates (i.e., predictors such as sea surface temperatures). This study addresses these challenges via a predictive model based on a graph-guided regularizer that simultaneously promotes similarity of predictive weights for highly correlated covariates and enforces sparsity in the covariate domain. This approach both decreases the effective dimensionality of the problem and identifies the most predictive features without specifying them a priori. We use large ensemble simulations from a climate model to construct this regularizer, reducing the structural uncertainty in the estimation. We apply the learned model to predict winter precipitation in the southwestern United States using sea surface temperatures over the entire Pacific basin, and demonstrate its superiority compared to other regularization approaches and statistical models informed by known teleconnections. Our results highlight the potential to combine optimally the space\u2013time structure of predictor variables learned from climate models with new graph-based regularizers to improve seasonal prediction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1175\/jcli-d-20-0079.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,19]],"date-time":"2020-10-19T13:51:34Z","timestamp":1603115494000},"page":"737-754","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Graph-Guided Regularized Regression of Pacific Ocean Climate Variables to Increase Predictive Skill of Southwestern U.S. Winter Precipitation"],"prefix":"10.1175","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Abby","family":"Stevens","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"a Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rebecca","family":"Willett","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"a Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois"},{"name":"b Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Antonios","family":"Mamalakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Efi","family":"Foufoula-Georgiou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California"},{"name":"d Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alejandro","family":"Tejedor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"e Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"James T.","family":"Randerson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"d Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Padhraic","family":"Smyth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"f Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California"},{"name":"g Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Stephen","family":"Wright","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"h Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, Madison, Wisconsin"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"12","container-title":["Journal of Climate"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/clim\/34\/2\/JCLI-D-20-0079.1.xml","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/jcli\/article-pdf\/doi\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-20-0079.1\/5008996\/jclid200079.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"syndication"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/downloadpdf\/journals\/clim\/34\/2\/JCLI-D-20-0079.1.xml","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,28]],"date-time":"2020-12-28T15:19:21Z","timestamp":1609168761000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/clim\/34\/2\/JCLI-D-20-0079.1.xml"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/jcli-d-20-0079.1","relation":{},"ISSN":["0894-8755","1520-0442"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0894-8755","type":"print"},{"value":"1520-0442","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,1]]}}}