Predictive multiview embedding

Abstract: Multiview embedding is a way to model strange attractors that takes advantage of the way measurements are often made in real chaotic systems, using multidimensional measurements to make up for a lack of long timeseries. Predictive multiview embedding adapts this approach to the problem of predicting new values, and provides a natural framework for combining multiple sources of information such as natural measurements and computer model runs for potentially improved prediction. Here, using 18 month ahead prediction of monthly averages, we show how predictive multiview embedding can be combined with simple statistical approaches to explore predictability of four climate variables by a GCM, build prediction bounds, explore the local manifold structure of the attractor, and show that even though the GCM does not predict a particular variable well, a hybrid model combining information from the GCM and empirical data predicts that variable significantly better than the purely empirical model.