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Drought-related hot summers: A joint probability analysis in the Iberian Peninsula by Ribeiro, Andreia F.S., Russo, Ana, Gouveia, Célia M., Pires, Carlos A.L.

“…Droughts and hot extremes are major sources of risk to several socio-economic activities and their impacts are expected to increase under future global…”
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Global Empirical Models for Tropopause Height Determination by Mateus, Pedro, Mendes, Virgílio B., Pires, Carlos A.L.

“…The calculation of the tropopause height is crucial to the investigation of fundamental interactions between the troposphere and stratosphere, playing an…”
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Independent Subspace Analysis of the Sea Surface Temperature Variability: Non-Gaussian Sources and Sensitivity to Sampling and Dimensionality by Pires, Carlos A. L., Hannachi, Abdel

“…We propose an expansion of multivariate time-series data into maximally independent source subspaces. The search is made among rotations of prewhitened data…”
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Bispectral analysis of nonlinear interaction, predictability and stochastic modelling with application to ENSO by Pires, Carlos A. L., Hannachi, Abdel

“…Non-Gaussianity and nonlinearity have been shown to be ubiquitous characteristics of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) with implication on predictability,…”
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A comparison of two causal methods in the context of climate analyses by Docquier, David, Di Capua, Giorgia, Donner, Reik V, Pires, Carlos A. L, Simon, Amélie, Vannitsem, Stéphane

“…Correlation does not necessarily imply causation, and this is why causal methods have been developed to try to disentangle true causal links from spurious…”
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Probabilistic modelling of the dependence between rainfed crops and drought hazard by Ribeiro, Andreia F. S, Russo, Ana, Gouveia, Célia M, Páscoa, Patrícia, Pires, Carlos A. L

“…Extreme weather events, such as droughts, have been increasingly affecting the agricultural sector, causing several socio-economic consequences. The growing…”
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Separation of the atmospheric variability into non-Gaussian multidimensional sources by projection pursuit techniques by Pires, Carlos A. L., Ribeiro, Andreia F. S.

“…We develop an expansion of space-distributed time series into statistically independent uncorrelated subspaces (statistical sources) of low-dimension and…”
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Minimum Mutual Information and Non-Gaussianity Through the Maximum Entropy Method: Theory and Properties by Rui A. P. Perdigão, Carlos A. L. Pires

“…The application of the Maximum Entropy (ME) principle leads to a minimum of the Mutual Information (MI), I(X,Y) , between random variables X , Y , which is…”
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Minimum Mutual Information and Non-Gaussianity through the Maximum Entropy Method: Estimation from Finite Samples by Carlos A. L. Pires, Rui A. P. Perdigão

“…The Minimum Mutual Information (MinMI) Principle provides the least committed, maximum-joint-entropy (ME) inferential law that is compatible with prescribed…”
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