Exploring non-linear associations between atmospheric new-particle formation and ambient variables: a mutual information approach

Zaidan, Martha A.; Haapasilta, Ville; Relan, Rishi; Paasonen, Pauli; Kerminen, Veli-Matti; Junninen, Heikki; Kulmala, Markku; Foster, Adam S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12699-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12699-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12699-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 17

Research article

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03 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 03 Sep 2018

Exploring non-linear associations between atmospheric new-particle formation and ambient variables: a mutual information approach

Martha A. Zaidan, Ville Haapasilta, Rishi Relan, Pauli Paasonen, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Heikki Junninen, Markku Kulmala, and Adam S. Foster

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- AC1: 'The author’s response to Anonymous Referee #1', Martha Arbayani Zaidan, 27 Jul 2018
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- AC2: 'The author’s response to Anonymous Referee #2', Martha Arbayani Zaidan, 27 Jul 2018

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This article promotes the use of the mutual information method for finding any non-linear associations among atmospheric variables. We demonstrate that the same results from previous studies are obtained by this method, which operates without supervision and without the need of understanding the physics deeply. This suggests that the method is suitable to be implemented widely in the atmospheric field to discover other interesting phenomena and their relevant variables.