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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2024-2656</article-id>
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<article-title>Constraining uncertainty in projected precipitation over land with causal discovery</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Debeire</surname>
<given-names>Kevin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6006-8750</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bock</surname>
<given-names>Lisa</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7058-5938</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nowack</surname>
<given-names>Peer</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-7832</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Runge</surname>
<given-names>Jakob</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Eyring</surname>
<given-names>Veronika</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6887-4885</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Berlin, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), Dresden/Leipzig, Germany</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), Bremen, Germany</addr-line>
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<day>06</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<volume>2024</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>32</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2024 Kevin Debeire et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Accurately projecting future precipitation patterns over land is crucial for understanding climate change and developing effective mitigation and adaptation strategies. However, projections of precipitation changes in state-of-the-art climate models still exhibit considerable uncertainty, in particular over vulnerable and populated land areas. This study aims to address this challenge by introducing a novel methodology for constraining climate model precipitation projections with causal discovery. Our approach involves a multistep procedure that integrates dimension reduction, causal network estimation, causal network evaluation, and a causal weighting scheme which is based on the historical performance (the distance of the causal network of a model to the causal network of a reanalysis dataset) and the interdependence of CMIP6 models (the distance of the causal network of a model to the causal network of other climate models). To uncover the significant causal pathways crucial for understanding dynamical interactions in the climate models and reanalysis datasets, we estimate the time-lagged causal relationships using the PCMCI causal discovery algorithm. In the last step, a novel causal weighting scheme is introduced, assigning weights based on the performance and interdependence of the CMIP6 models&apos; causal networks. For the end-of-century period 2081&amp;ndash;2100, our method reduces the very likely ranges (5&amp;ndash;95 percentile) of projected precipitation changes over land between 10 and 16 % relative to the unweighted ranges across three global warming scenarios (SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5). The sizes of the likely ranges (17&amp;ndash;83 percentile) are further reduced between 16 and 41 %. This methodology is not limited to precipitation over land and can be applied to other climate variables, supporting better mitigation and adaptation strategies to tackle climate change.</p>
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<funding-source>European Research Council</funding-source>
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<funding-source>Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft</funding-source>
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<funding-source>Research Councils UK</funding-source>
<award-id>NE/V012045/1</award-id>
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<funding-source>Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt</funding-source>
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<funding-source>Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum</funding-source>
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