iHARP Publication Alert - Advancing climate model interpretability: Feature attribution for Arctic melt anomalies iHARP supported research
Advancing climate model interpretability: Feature attribution for Arctic melt anomalies

Authored by Tolulope Ale (PhD Candidate), Dr. Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel, and Dr. Vandana Janeja

Abstract:

The focus of our work is improving the interpretability of anomalies in climate models and advancing our understanding of Arctic melt dynamics.

The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets are experiencing rapid surface melting and increased freshwater runoff, contributing significantly to global sea level rise. Understanding the mechanisms driving snowmelt in these regions is crucial. ERA5, a widely used reanalysis dataset in polar climate studies, offers extensive climate variables and global data assimilation. However, its snowmelt model employs an energy imbalance approach that may oversimplify the
complexity of surface melt. In contrast, the Glacier Energy and Mass Balance (GEMB) model incorporates additional physical processes, such as snow accumulation, firn densification, and meltwater percolation/refreezing, providing a more detailed representation of surface melt dynamics.

In this research, we focus on analyzing surface snowmelt dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet using feature attribution for anomalous melt events in ERA5 and GEMB models. We present a novel unsupervised attribution method leveraging the counterfactual explanation method to analyze detected anomalies in ERA5 and GEMB. Our anomaly detection results are validated using MEaSUREs ground-truth data, and the attributions are evaluated against established feature ranking methods, including XGBoost, Shapley values, and Random Forest.

Our attribution framework identifies the physics behind each model and the climate features driving melt anomalies. These findings demonstrate the utility of our attribution method in enhancing the interpretability of anomalies in climate models and advancing our understanding of Arctic melt dynamics

Check the full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07741

Join us in congratulating the authors on their hard work and getting their paper accepted by the IEEE ICDM 2025, 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

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The team at the Alex. Brown Center is so excited to host LaunchPad Demo Day  from 6:30-8:30pm at bwTECH South (1st Floor Seminar Room)!

Reception starts at 5:30pm!

This event showcases the participants in the UMBC Launchpad accelerator program which provides education, mentoring, funding and support to help them take their business idea to the next level. Come listen to the students as they present their business idea and showcase their progress towards launching their venture.

Students, faculty, alumni, and members of the business community are welcome to attend! Drinks and appetizers will be provided! We hope to see you there!


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The Grad Retriever Breakfast is happening TODAY at 10 AM in Commons 308! 

Bring your appetite and your friends!

Swing by and start your morning with free breakfast food because nothing says grad life like coffee and carbs. This is your chance to fuel up, take a break from research and classes, and connect with fellow graduate students.

DID WE MENTION: Free food for grad students.........................

Hosted by the Office of Graduate Student Life 


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Current Juniors - Want to Visit Under Armour's Headquarter Campus? Do you think you may be a good fit for an opportunity at Under Armour? UMBC secured very exclusive access for a bus trip to Under Armour Headquarters on Friday October 3, 2025. *Limited spots.  You must sign up HERE to go to the Under On The Road.

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Thanks to all ten Honors students who submitted designs--our biggest field yet! But there can only be one winner...and it is Isabel Kendall's awesome puppy shirt! Congratulations :-)

So, how do you get yours? Come to Homecoming, Saturday October 11th, where we give them to alumni and our students! If you cannot make it to Homecoming, we will be giving them out sometime the week of October 13th to our students on a first come, first served basis (after we announce the exact start date). 

Great job everyone!
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OGSL on the Go: Community, Connections, and Coffee! Keep an eye out—OGSL is popping up across campus! Our pop-ups bring snacks, resources, and a chance to connect right where you are. Stop by our first pop-up on Wednesday, September 24 from 12 - 2pm at the Commons Breezeway to learn more about graduate student opportunities, meet the OGSL team, and grab some free goodies. Each pop-up is a fun, easy way to stay connected and build community at UMBC. ]]> Keep an eye out—OGSL is popping up across campus! Our pop-ups bring snacks, resources, and a chance to connect right where you are. 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Calling All Graduate Students! 

Join the writing accountability group to commit to your writing goals. The kickoff meeting is on 10/03/2025 from 11am - 12pm at ILSB 230 (virtual option also available). Light refreshments will be provided! 

Click here to join this meeting virtually. 

What are Writing Accountability Group, or WAGs at UMBC?

  • What: Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) are voluntary and facilitated by fellow UMBC graduate students

  • Who: WAGs are comprised of a group of graduate students (usually 4-8 participants per group) interested in developing writing habits and accountability 

  • Why: Develop habits of writing every day for a short, manageable period of time by setting goals and being accountable to WAG peers 

  • When: WAG groups meet once a week for 60-90 minutes for 10-12 weeks. The group finds a weekly time mutually convenient to all group members.

  • Where: The group decides on a mutually convenient location to meet, whether in person or online via WebEx or other video conferencing platform


    Register with this link. Hope to see you there!
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UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship will hold a workshop series this Fall on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods.  This series will begin with the basics of computing in R and how to use generative AI/LLMs in social science research workflows.  Each session will focus on helping faculty and students become comfortable with deploying AI and LLM models in their research, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the ethical, equity, and environmental implications of these models.  

This series is supported through the Elkins Professorship, features several speakers, and will continue into the spring 2026 semester. The four sessions this Fall are:

Register for the sessions here.

Cosponsored by DoIT, the Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science, and CGC-SCIPE.

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ENTER THE HALLOWZINE IF YOU DARE!

Submit your spooky short stories, ghoulish crossword puzzles, haunted haikus, photos of you as an adorable child dressed up in your costume...even better, your PETS IN COSTUMES! Students, Staff, Faculty and Alumni are all welcome to submit.

You may submit up to 3 pieces. Submitted pieces will be included in the Hallowzine 2025 Zine + Digital Gallery.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! 

For best consideration, enter by October 26, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Entries submitted after this time will be accepted on a case-by-case basis.

Design by Mary.
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