Posit AI Weblog: AO, NAO, ENSO: A wavelet research instance

Not too long ago, we confirmed the right way to use torch for wavelet research. A member of the circle of relatives of spectral research strategies, wavelet research bears some similarity to the Fourier Change into, and particularly, to its widespread two-dimensional software, the spectrogram.

As defined in that e book excerpt, even though, there are vital variations. For the needs of the present put up, it suffices to understand that frequency-domain patterns are came upon by means of having a bit “wave” (that, truly, will also be of any form) “slide” over the information, computing level of fit (or mismatch) locally of each and every pattern.

With this put up, then, my purpose is two-fold.

First, to introduce torchwavelets, a tiny, but helpful bundle that automates all the very important steps concerned. In comparison to the Fourier Change into and its programs, the subject of wavelets is slightly “chaotic” – that means, it enjoys a lot much less shared terminology, and far much less shared observe. Because of this, it is smart for implementations to observe established, community-embraced approaches, on every occasion such are to be had and neatly documented. With torchwavelets, we offer an implementation of Torrence and Compo’s 1998 “Sensible Information to Wavelet Research” (Torrence and Compo (1998)), an oft-cited paper that proved influential throughout quite a lot of software domain names. Code-wise, our bundle can be a port of Tom Runia’s PyTorch implementation, itself in keeping with a previous implementation by means of Aaron O’Leary.

2nd, to turn a gorgeous use case of wavelet research in a space of serious clinical pastime and super social significance (meteorology/climatology). Being in no way a professional myself, I’d hope this may well be inspiring to other folks operating in those fields, in addition to to scientists and analysts in different spaces the place temporal information get up.

Concretely, what we’ll do is take 3 other atmospheric phenomena – El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and Arctic Oscillation (AO) – and examine them the usage of wavelet research. In every case, we additionally take a look at the total frequency spectrum, given by means of the Discrete Fourier Change into (DFT), in addition to a vintage time-series decomposition into pattern, seasonal elements, and the rest.

3 oscillations

By means of a ways the best-known – probably the most notorious, I will have to say – some of the 3 is El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a.okay.a. El Niño/Los angeles Niña. The time period refers to a converting trend of sea floor temperatures and sea-level pressures going on within the equatorial Pacific. Each El Niño and Los angeles Niña can and do have catastrophic affect on other folks’s lives, maximum significantly, for other folks in creating international locations west and east of the Pacific.

El Niño happens when floor water temperatures within the jap Pacific are upper than standard, and the robust winds that in most cases blow from east to west are strangely susceptible. From April to October, this results in sizzling, extraordinarily rainy climate stipulations alongside the coasts of northern Peru and Ecuador, frequently leading to main floods. Los angeles Niña, alternatively, reasons a drop in sea floor temperatures over Southeast Asia in addition to heavy rains over Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Whilst those are the spaces maximum gravely impacted, adjustments in ENSO reverberate around the globe.

Much less widely recognized than ENSO, however extremely influential as neatly, is the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). It strongly impacts iciness climate in Europe, Greenland, and North The united states. Its two states relate to the dimensions of the power distinction between the Icelandic Prime and the Azores Low. When the power distinction is excessive, the jet circulate – the ones robust westerly winds that blow between North The united states and Northern Europe – is but more potent than standard, resulting in heat, rainy Ecu winters and calmer-than-normal stipulations in Jap North The united states. With a lower-than-normal power distinction, alternatively, the American East has a tendency to incur extra heavy storms and cold-air outbreaks, whilst winters in Northern Europe are less warm and extra dry.

In spite of everything, the Arctic Oscillation (AO) is a ring-like trend of sea-level power anomalies targeted on the North Pole. (Its Southern-hemisphere equal is the Antarctic Oscillation.) AO’s affect extends past the Arctic Circle, alternatively; it’s indicative of whether or not and what sort of Arctic air flows down into the center latitudes. AO and NAO are strongly similar, and would possibly designate the similar bodily phenomenon at a elementary point.

Now, let’s make those characterizations extra concrete by means of taking a look at exact information.

Research: ENSO

We commence with the best-known of those phenomena: ENSO. Information are to be had from 1854 onwards; alternatively, for comparison with AO, we discard all information previous to January, 1950. For research, we pick out NINO34_MEAN, the per month moderate sea floor temperature within the Niño 3.4 area (i.e., the realm between 5° South, 5° North, 190° East, and 240° East). In spite of everything, we convert to a tsibble, the layout anticipated by means of feasts::STL().

library(tidyverse)
library(tsibble)

obtain.record(
  "https://bmcnoldy.rsmas.miami.edu/tropics/oni/ONI_NINO34_1854-2022.txt",
  destfile = "ONI_NINO34_1854-2022.txt"
)

enso <- read_table("ONI_NINO34_1854-2022.txt", skip = 9) %>%
  mutate(x = yearmonth(as.Date(paste0(YEAR, "-", `MON/MMM`, "-01")))) %>%
  choose(x, enso = NINO34_MEAN) %>%
  filter out(x >= yearmonth("1950-01"), x <= yearmonth("2022-09")) %>%
  as_tsibble(index = x)

enso

# A tsibble: 873 x 2 [1M]
          x  enso
      <mth> <dbl>
 1 1950 Jan  24.6
 2 1950 Feb  25.1
 3 1950 Mar  25.9
 4 1950 Apr  26.3
 5 1950 Would possibly  26.2
 6 1950 Jun  26.5
 7 1950 Jul  26.3
 8 1950 Aug  25.9
 9 1950 Sep  25.7
10 1950 Oct  25.7
# … with 863 extra rows

As already introduced, we need to take a look at seasonal decomposition, as neatly. In relation to seasonal periodicity, what do we predict? Until instructed another way, feasts::STL() will luckily pick out a window dimension for us. On the other hand, there’ll most probably be a number of essential frequencies within the information. (No longer short of to wreck the suspense, however for AO and NAO, this will likely surely be the case!). But even so, we need to compute the Fourier Change into anyway, so why no longer do this first?

This is the ability spectrum:

Within the beneath plot, the x axis corresponds to frequencies, expressed as “selection of instances in keeping with 12 months.” We simplest show frequencies as much as and together with the Nyquist frequency, i.e., part the sampling charge, which in our case is 12 (in keeping with 12 months).

num_samples <- nrow(enso)
nyquist_cutoff <- ceiling(num_samples / 2) # easiest discernible frequency
bins_below_nyquist <- 0:nyquist_cutoff

sampling_rate <- 12 # in keeping with 12 months
frequencies_per_bin <- sampling_rate / num_samples
frequencies <- frequencies_per_bin * bins_below_nyquist

df <- information.body(f = frequencies, y = as.numeric(fft[1:(nyquist_cutoff + 1)]$abs()))
df %>% ggplot(aes(f, y)) +
  geom_line() +
  xlab("frequency (in keeping with 12 months)") +
  ylab("magnitude") +
  ggtitle("Spectrum of Niño 3.4 information")

There’s one dominant frequency, akin to about every year. From this element by myself, we’d be expecting one El Niño match – or equivalently, one Los angeles Niña – in keeping with 12 months. However let’s find essential frequencies extra exactly. With no longer many different periodicities status out, we might as neatly prohibit ourselves to a few:

most powerful <- torch_topk(fft[1:(nyquist_cutoff/2)]$abs(), 3)
most powerful

[[1]]
torch_tensor
233.9855
172.2784
142.3784
[ CPUFloatType{3} ]

[[2]]
torch_tensor
74
21
7
[ CPULongType{3} ]

What we’ve listed here are the magnitudes of the dominant elements, in addition to their respective boxes within the spectrum. Let’s see which exact frequencies those correspond to:

important_freqs <- frequencies[as.numeric(strongest[[2]])]
important_freqs

[1] 1.00343643 0.27491409 0.08247423 

That’s as soon as in keeping with 12 months, as soon as in keeping with quarter, and as soon as each and every twelve years, roughly. Or, expressed as periodicity, with regards to months (i.e., what number of months are there in a length):

num_observations_in_season <- 12/important_freqs  
num_observations_in_season

[1] 11.95890  43.65000 145.50000  

We now move those to feasts::STL(), to acquire a five-fold decomposition into pattern, seasonal elements, and the rest.

library(feasts)
enso %>%
  style(STL(enso ~ season(length = 12) + season(length = 44) +
              season(length = 145))) %>%
  elements() %>%
  autoplot()

In keeping with Loess decomposition, there nonetheless is essential noise within the information – the remaining closing excessive in spite of our hinting at essential seasonalities. In reality, there’s no giant wonder in that: Having a look again on the DFT output, no longer simplest are there many, shut to each other, low- and lowish-frequency elements, however as well as, high-frequency elements simply received’t stop to give a contribution. And truly, as of these days, ENSO forecasting – significantly essential with regards to human affect – is thinking about predicting oscillation state only a 12 months prematurely. This can be attention-grabbing to remember for after we continue to the opposite sequence – as you’ll see, it’ll simplest worsen.

By means of now, we’re neatly knowledgeable about how dominant temporal rhythms decide, or fail to decide, what if truth be told occurs in environment and ocean. However we don’t know the rest about whether or not, and the way, the ones rhythms can have various in energy over the time span thought to be. That is the place wavelet research is available in.

In torchwavelets, the central operation is a decision to wavelet_transform(), to instantiate an object that looks after all required operations. One argument is needed: signal_length, the selection of information issues within the sequence. And one of the crucial defaults we want to override: dt, the time between samples, expressed within the unit we’re operating with. In our case, that’s 12 months, and, having per month samples, we want to move a price of one/12. With all different defaults untouched, research can be completed the usage of the Morlet wavelet (to be had possible choices are Mexican Hat and Paul), and the grow to be can be computed within the Fourier area (the quickest means, until you will have a GPU).

library(torchwavelets)
enso_idx <- enso$enso %>% as.numeric() %>% torch_tensor()
dt <- 1/12
wtf <- wavelet_transform(duration(enso_idx), dt = dt)

A decision to energy() will then compute the wavelet grow to be:

power_spectrum <- wtf$energy(enso_idx)
power_spectrum$form

[1]  71 873

The result’s two-dimensional. The second one size holds dimension instances, i.e., the months between January, 1950 and September, 2022. The primary size warrants some extra rationalization.

Particularly, we’ve right here the set of scales the grow to be has been computed for. When you’re aware of the Fourier Change into and its analogue, the spectrogram, you’ll most definitely assume with regards to time as opposed to frequency. With wavelets, there’s an extra parameter, the size, that determines the unfold of the research trend.

Some wavelets have each a scale and a frequency, by which case those can engage in advanced tactics. Others are outlined such that no separate frequency seems. Within the latter case, you right away finally end up with the time vs. scale format we see in wavelet diagrams (scaleograms). Within the former, maximum device hides the complexity by means of merging scale and frequency into one, leaving simply scale as a user-visible parameter. In torchwavelets, too, the wavelet frequency (if existent) has been “streamlined away.” Because of this, we’ll finally end up plotting time as opposed to scale, as neatly. I’ll say extra after we if truth be told see one of these scaleogram.

For visualisation, we transpose the information and put it right into a ggplot-friendly layout:

instances <- lubridate::12 months(enso$x) + lubridate::month(enso$x) / 12
scales <- as.numeric(wtf$scales)

df <- as_tibble(as.matrix(power_spectrum$t()), .name_repair = "common") %>%
  mutate(time = instances) %>%
  pivot_longer(!time, names_to = "scale", values_to = "energy") %>%
  mutate(scale = scales[scale %>%
    str_remove("[.]{3}") %>%
    as.numeric()])
df %>% glimpse()

Rows: 61,983
Columns: 3
$ time  <dbl> 1950.083, 1950.083, 1950.083, 1950.083, 195…
$ scale <dbl> 0.1613356, 0.1759377, 0.1918614, 0.2092263,…
$ energy <dbl> 0.03617507, 0.05985500, 0.07948010, 0.09819…

There’s one further piece of data to be included, nonetheless: the so-called “cone of affect” (COI). Visually, it is a shading that tells us which a part of the plot displays incomplete, and thus, unreliable and to-be-disregarded, information. Particularly, the larger the size, the extra spread-out the research wavelet, and the extra incomplete the overlap on the borders of the sequence when the wavelet slides over the information. You’ll see what I imply in a 2nd.

The COI will get its personal information body:

And now we’re in a position to create the scaleogram:

labeled_scales <- c(0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64)
labeled_frequencies <- spherical(as.numeric(wtf$fourier_period(labeled_scales)), 1)

ggplot(df) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    trans = scales::compose_trans(scales::log2_trans(), scales::reverse_trans()),
    breaks = c(0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64),
    limits = c(max(scales), min(scales)),
    amplify = c(0, 0),
    sec.axis = dup_axis(
      labels = scales::label_number(labeled_frequencies),
      title = "Fourier length (years)"
    )
  ) +
  ylab("scale (years)") +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(1950, 2020, by means of = 5), amplify = c(0, 0)) +
  xlab("12 months") +
  geom_contour_filled(aes(time, scale, z = energy), display.legend = FALSE) +
  scale_fill_viridis_d(possibility = "turbo") +
  geom_ribbon(information = coi_df, aes(x = x, ymin = y, ymax = max(scales)),
              fill = "black", alpha = 0.6) +
  theme(legend.place = "none")

What we see here’s how, in ENSO, other rhythms have prevailed over the years. As an alternative of “rhythms,” I may have mentioned “scales,” or “frequencies,” or “classes” – all the ones translate into one any other. Since, to us people, wavelet scales don’t imply that a lot, the length (in years) is displayed on an extra y axis at the proper.

So, we see that within the eighties, an (roughly) four-year length had outstanding affect. Thereafter, but longer periodicities won in dominance. And, in line with what we predict from prior research, there’s a basso continuo of annual similarity.

Additionally, observe how, in the beginning sight, there turns out to were a decade the place a six-year length stood out: proper initially of the place (for us) dimension begins, within the fifties. On the other hand, the darkish shading – the COI – tells us that, on this area, the information isn’t to be depended on.

Summing up, the two-dimensional research well enhances the extra compressed characterization we were given from the DFT. Prior to we transfer directly to the following sequence, alternatively, let me simply temporarily deal with one query, for those who have been questioning (if no longer, simply learn on, since I received’t be going into main points anyway): How is that this other from a spectrogram?

In a nutshell, the spectrogram splits the information into a number of “home windows,” and computes the DFT independently on they all. To compute the scaleogram, alternatively, the research wavelet slides incessantly over the information, leading to a spectrum-equivalent for the group of every pattern within the sequence. With the spectrogram, a hard and fast window dimension implies that no longer all frequencies are resolved similarly neatly: The upper frequencies seem extra steadily within the period than the decrease ones, and thus, will permit for higher solution. Wavelet research, against this, is finished on a suite of scales intentionally organized to be able to seize a extensive differ of frequencies theoretically seen in a sequence of given duration.

Research: NAO

The information record for NAO is in fixed-table layout. After conversion to a tsibble, we’ve:

obtain.record(
 "https://crudata.uea.ac.united kingdom/cru/information//nao/nao.dat",
 destfile = "nao.dat"
)

# wanted for AO, as neatly
use_months <- seq.Date(
  from = as.Date("1950-01-01"),
  to = as.Date("2022-09-01"),
  by means of = "months"
)

nao <-
  read_table(
    "nao.dat",
    col_names = FALSE,
    na = "-99.99",
    skip = 3
  ) %>%
  choose(-X1, -X14) %>%
  as.matrix() %>%
  t() %>%
  as.vector() %>%
  .[1:length(use_months)] %>%
  tibble(
    x = use_months,
    nao = .
  ) %>%
  mutate(x = yearmonth(x)) %>%
  fill(nao) %>%
  as_tsibble(index = x)

nao

# A tsibble: 873 x 2 [1M]
          x   nao
      <mth> <dbl>
 1 1950 Jan -0.16
 2 1950 Feb  0.25
 3 1950 Mar -1.44
 4 1950 Apr  1.46
 5 1950 Would possibly  1.34
 6 1950 Jun -3.94
 7 1950 Jul -2.75
 8 1950 Aug -0.08
 9 1950 Sep  0.19
10 1950 Oct  0.19
# … with 863 extra rows

Like ahead of, we begin with the spectrum:

fft <- torch_fft_fft(as.numeric(scale(nao$nao)))

num_samples <- nrow(nao)
nyquist_cutoff <- ceiling(num_samples / 2)
bins_below_nyquist <- 0:nyquist_cutoff

sampling_rate <- 12 
frequencies_per_bin <- sampling_rate / num_samples
frequencies <- frequencies_per_bin * bins_below_nyquist

df <- information.body(f = frequencies, y = as.numeric(fft[1:(nyquist_cutoff + 1)]$abs()))
df %>% ggplot(aes(f, y)) +
  geom_line() +
  xlab("frequency (in keeping with 12 months)") +
  ylab("magnitude") +
  ggtitle("Spectrum of NAO information")

Have you ever been questioning for a tiny second whether or not this was once time-domain information – no longer spectral? It does glance much more noisy than the ENSO spectrum needless to say. And truly, with NAO, predictability is far worse – forecast lead time most often quantities to simply one or two weeks.

Continuing as ahead of, we pick out dominant seasonalities (no less than this nonetheless is imaginable!) to move to feasts::STL().

most powerful <- torch_topk(fft[1:(nyquist_cutoff/2)]$abs(), 6)
most powerful

[[1]]
torch_tensor
102.7191
80.5129
76.1179
75.9949
72.9086
60.8281
[ CPUFloatType{6} ]

[[2]]
torch_tensor
147
99
146
59
33
78
[ CPULongType{6} ]

important_freqs <- frequencies[as.numeric(strongest[[2]])]
important_freqs

[1] 2.0068729 1.3470790 1.9931271 0.7972509 0.4398625 1.0584192

num_observations_in_season <- 12/important_freqs  
num_observations_in_season

[1]  5.979452  8.908163  6.020690 15.051724 27.281250 11.337662

Essential seasonal classes are of duration six, 9, 11, fifteen, and twenty-seven months, roughly – beautiful shut in combination certainly! No surprise that, in STL decomposition, the remaining is much more vital than with ENSO:

nao %>%
  style(STL(nao ~ season(length = 6) + season(length = 9) +
              season(length = 15) + season(length = 27) +
              season(length = 12))) %>%
  elements() %>%
  autoplot()

Now, what is going to we see with regards to temporal evolution? A lot of the code that follows is equal to for ENSO, repeated right here for the reader’s comfort:

nao_idx <- nao$nao %>% as.numeric() %>% torch_tensor()
dt <- 1/12 # similar period as for ENSO
wtf <- wavelet_transform(duration(nao_idx), dt = dt)
power_spectrum <- wtf$energy(nao_idx)

instances <- lubridate::12 months(nao$x) + lubridate::month(nao$x)/12 # additionally similar
scales <- as.numeric(wtf$scales) # can be similar as a result of each sequence have similar duration

df <- as_tibble(as.matrix(power_spectrum$t()), .name_repair = "common") %>%
  mutate(time = instances) %>%
  pivot_longer(!time, names_to = "scale", values_to = "energy") %>%
  mutate(scale = scales[scale %>%
    str_remove("[.]{3}") %>%
    as.numeric()])

coi <- wtf$coi(instances[1], instances[length(nao_idx)])
coi_df <- information.body(x = as.numeric(coi[[1]]), y = as.numeric(coi[[2]]))

labeled_scales <- c(0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64) # similar since scales are similar 
labeled_frequencies <- spherical(as.numeric(wtf$fourier_period(labeled_scales)), 1)

ggplot(df) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    trans = scales::compose_trans(scales::log2_trans(), scales::reverse_trans()),
    breaks = c(0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64),
    limits = c(max(scales), min(scales)),
    amplify = c(0, 0),
    sec.axis = dup_axis(
      labels = scales::label_number(labeled_frequencies),
      title = "Fourier length (years)"
    )
  ) +
  ylab("scale (years)") +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(1950, 2020, by means of = 5), amplify = c(0, 0)) +
  xlab("12 months") +
  geom_contour_filled(aes(time, scale, z = energy), display.legend = FALSE) +
  scale_fill_viridis_d(possibility = "turbo") +
  geom_ribbon(information = coi_df, aes(x = x, ymin = y, ymax = max(scales)),
              fill = "black", alpha = 0.6) +
  theme(legend.place = "none")

That, actually, is a a lot more colourful image than with ENSO! Prime frequencies are provide, and frequently dominant, over the entire time frame.

Curiously, even though, we see similarities to ENSO, as neatly: In each, there’s crucial trend, of periodicity 4 or reasonably extra years, that exerces affect throughout the eighties, nineties, and early two-thousands – simplest with ENSO, it displays top affect throughout the nineties, whilst with NAO, its dominance is maximum seen within the first decade of this century. Additionally, each phenomena show off a strongly seen top, of length two years, round 1970. So, is there a detailed(-ish) connection between each oscillations? This query, after all, is for the area professionals to reply to. No less than I discovered a up to date learn about (Scaife et al. (2014)) that no longer simplest suggests there’s, however makes use of one (ENSO, the extra predictable one) to tell forecasts of the opposite:

Earlier research have proven that the El Niño–Southern Oscillation can pressure interannual diversifications within the NAO [Brönnimann et al., 2007] and therefore Atlantic and Ecu iciness local weather by the use of the stratosphere [Bell et al., 2009]. […] this teleconnection to the tropical Pacific is energetic in our experiments, with forecasts initialized in El Niño/Los angeles Niña stipulations in November tending to be adopted by means of destructive/sure NAO stipulations in iciness.

Can we see a identical dating for AO, our 3rd sequence beneath investigation? We would possibly be expecting so, since AO and NAO are intently similar (and even, two aspects of the similar coin).

Research: AO

First, the information:

obtain.record(
 "https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/merchandise/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/per month.ao.index.b50.present.ascii.desk",
 destfile = "ao.dat"
)

ao <-
  read_table(
    "ao.dat",
    col_names = FALSE,
    skip = 1
  ) %>%
  choose(-X1) %>%
  as.matrix() %>% 
  t() %>%
  as.vector() %>%
  .[1:length(use_months)] %>%
  tibble(x = use_months,
         ao = .) %>%
  mutate(x = yearmonth(x)) %>%
  fill(ao) %>%
  as_tsibble(index = x) 

ao

# A tsibble: 873 x 2 [1M]
          x     ao
      <mth>  <dbl>
 1 1950 Jan -0.06 
 2 1950 Feb  0.627
 3 1950 Mar -0.008
 4 1950 Apr  0.555
 5 1950 Would possibly  0.072
 6 1950 Jun  0.539
 7 1950 Jul -0.802
 8 1950 Aug -0.851
 9 1950 Sep  0.358
10 1950 Oct -0.379
# … with 863 extra rows

And the spectrum:

fft <- torch_fft_fft(as.numeric(scale(ao$ao)))

num_samples <- nrow(ao)
nyquist_cutoff <- ceiling(num_samples / 2)
bins_below_nyquist <- 0:nyquist_cutoff

sampling_rate <- 12 # in keeping with 12 months
frequencies_per_bin <- sampling_rate / num_samples
frequencies <- frequencies_per_bin * bins_below_nyquist

df <- information.body(f = frequencies, y = as.numeric(fft[1:(nyquist_cutoff + 1)]$abs()))
df %>% ggplot(aes(f, y)) +
  geom_line() +
  xlab("frequency (in keeping with 12 months)") +
  ylab("magnitude") +
  ggtitle("Spectrum of AO information")

Neatly, this spectrum appears much more random than NAO’s, in that no longer even a unmarried frequency stands proud. For completeness, here’s the STL decomposition:

most powerful <- torch_topk(fft[1:(nyquist_cutoff/2)]$abs(), 5)

important_freqs <- frequencies[as.numeric(strongest[[2]])]
important_freqs
# [1] 0.01374570 0.35738832 1.77319588 1.27835052 0.06872852

num_observations_in_season <- 12/important_freqs  
num_observations_in_season
# [1] 873.000000  33.576923   6.767442   9.387097 174.600000 

ao %>%
  style(STL(ao ~ season(length = 33) + season(length = 7) +
              season(length = 9) + season(length = 174))) %>%
  elements() %>%
  autoplot()

In spite of everything, what can the scaleogram let us know about dominant patterns?

ao_idx <- ao$ao %>% as.numeric() %>% torch_tensor()
dt <- 1/12 # similar period as for ENSO and NAO
wtf <- wavelet_transform(duration(ao_idx), dt = dt)
power_spectrum <- wtf$energy(ao_idx)

instances <- lubridate::12 months(ao$x) + lubridate::month(ao$x)/12 # additionally similar
scales <- as.numeric(wtf$scales) # can be similar as a result of all sequence have similar duration

df <- as_tibble(as.matrix(power_spectrum$t()), .name_repair = "common") %>%
  mutate(time = instances) %>%
  pivot_longer(!time, names_to = "scale", values_to = "energy") %>%
  mutate(scale = scales[scale %>%
    str_remove("[.]{3}") %>%
    as.numeric()])

coi <- wtf$coi(instances[1], instances[length(ao_idx)])
coi_df <- information.body(x = as.numeric(coi[[1]]), y = as.numeric(coi[[2]]))

labeled_scales <- c(0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64) # similar since scales are similar 
labeled_frequencies <- spherical(as.numeric(wtf$fourier_period(labeled_scales)), 1)

ggplot(df) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    trans = scales::compose_trans(scales::log2_trans(), scales::reverse_trans()),
    breaks = c(0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64),
    limits = c(max(scales), min(scales)),
    amplify = c(0, 0),
    sec.axis = dup_axis(
      labels = scales::label_number(labeled_frequencies),
      title = "Fourier length (years)"
    )
  ) +
  ylab("scale (years)") +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(1950, 2020, by means of = 5), amplify = c(0, 0)) +
  xlab("12 months") +
  geom_contour_filled(aes(time, scale, z = energy), display.legend = FALSE) +
  scale_fill_viridis_d(possibility = "turbo") +
  geom_ribbon(information = coi_df, aes(x = x, ymin = y, ymax = max(scales)),
              fill = "black", alpha = 0.6) +
  theme(legend.place = "none")

Having observed the total spectrum, the loss of strongly dominant patterns within the scaleogram does no longer come as a large wonder. It’s tempting – for me, no less than – to look a mirrored image of ENSO round 1970, the entire extra since by means of transitivity, AO and ENSO will have to be similar come what may. However right here, certified judgment truly is reserved to the professionals.

Conclusion

Like I mentioned at first, this put up could be about inspiration, no longer technical element or reportable effects. And I’m hoping that inspirational it’s been, no less than a bit bit. When you’re experimenting with wavelets your self, or plan to – or in case you paintings within the atmospheric sciences, and want to supply some perception at the above information/phenomena – we’d love to listen to from you!

As at all times, thank you for studying!

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