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26 Sep 2023
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cfr (v2023.9.14): a Python package for climate field reconstruction

Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Dominique Guillot, Deborah Khider, Robert Tardif, and Walter A. Perkins

Abstract. Climate field reconstruction (CFR) refers to the estimation of spatiotemporal climate fields (such as surface temperature) from a collection of pointwise paleoclimate proxy datasets. The climate fields can provide rich information on climate dynamics and provide an out-of-sample validation of climate models. However, most CFR workflows are complex and timeconsuming, as they involve: (i) preprocessing of the proxy records, climate model simulations, and instrumental observations, (ii) application of one or more statistical methods, and (iii) analysis and visualization of the reconstruction results. Historically, this process has lacked transparency and accessibility, limiting reproducibility and experimentation by non-specialists. This article presents an open-source and object-oriented Python package called cfr that aims to make CFR workflows easy to understand and conduct, saving climatologists from technical details and facilitating efficient and reproducible research. It provides user-friendly utilities for common CFR tasks such as proxy and climate data analysis and visualization, proxy system modeling, and modularized workflows for multiple reconstruction methods, enabling methodological intercomparisons within the same framework. The package is supported with an extensive documentation of the application interface (API) and a growing number of tutorial notebooks illustrating its usage. As an example, we present two cfr-driven reconstruction experiments using the PAGES 2k temperature database: applying the last millennium reanalysis (LMR) paleoclimate data assimilation (PDA) framework and the Graphical Expectation-Maximization (GraphEM) algorithm, respectively.

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30 Apr 2024
cfr (v2024.1.26): a Python package for climate field reconstruction
Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Dominique Guillot, Deborah Khider, Robert Tardif, and Walter A. Perkins
Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 3409–3431, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3409-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3409-2024, 2024
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Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Dominique Guillot, Deborah Khider, Robert Tardif, and Walter A. Perkins

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Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2098', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Dec 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2098', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Jan 2024
  • AC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2098', Feng Zhu, 27 Jan 2024

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2098', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Dec 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2098', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Jan 2024
  • AC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-2098', Feng Zhu, 27 Jan 2024

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Feng Zhu on behalf of the Authors (27 Jan 2024)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Feb 2024) by Yuefei Zeng
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (20 Feb 2024)
RR by Feng Shi (09 Mar 2024)
ED: Publish as is (19 Mar 2024) by Yuefei Zeng
AR by Feng Zhu on behalf of the Authors (20 Mar 2024)  Manuscript 

Journal article(s) based on this preprint

30 Apr 2024
cfr (v2024.1.26): a Python package for climate field reconstruction
Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Dominique Guillot, Deborah Khider, Robert Tardif, and Walter A. Perkins
Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 3409–3431, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3409-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3409-2024, 2024
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Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Dominique Guillot, Deborah Khider, Robert Tardif, and Walter A. Perkins

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cfr (v2023.9.14): a Python package for Climate Field Reconstruction Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Dominique Guillot, Deborah Khider, Robert Tardif, and Walter A. Perkins https://zenodo.org/record/8347162

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Climate field reconstruction encompasses methods that estimate the evolution of climate in space and time based on natural archives. It is useful to investigate climate variations and validate climate models, but its implementation and use can be difficult for non-experts. This paper introduces a user-friendly Python package called "cfr" to make these methods more accessible, thanks to the computational and visualization tools that facilitate efficient and reproducible research on past climates.