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2021
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We present a study using a class of post-hoc local explanation methods i.e., feature importance methods for understanding a deep learning (DL) emulator of climate. Specifically, we consider a multiple-input-single-output emulator that uses a DenseNet encoder-decoder architecture and is trained to predict interannual variations of sea surface temperature (SST) at 1, 6, and 9 month lead times using the preceding 36 months of (appropriately filtered) SST data. First, feature importance methods are employed for individual predictions to spatio-temporally identify input features that are important for model prediction at chosen geographical regions and chosen prediction lead times. In a second step, we also examine the behavior of feature importance in a generalized sense by considering an aggregation of the importance heatmaps over training samples. We find that: 1) the climate emulators prediction at any geographical location depends dominantly on a small neighborhood around it; 2) the longer the prediction lead time, the further back the importance extends; and 3) to leading order, the temporal decay of importance is independent of geographical location. An ablation experiment is adopted to verify the findings. From the perspective of climate dynamics, these findings suggest a dominant role for local processes and a negligible role for remote teleconnections at the spatial and temporal scales we consider. From the perspective of network architecture, the spatio-temporal relations between the inputs and outputs we find suggest potential model refinements. We discuss further extensions of our methods, some of which we are considering in ongoing work.
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