PCA: Lecture 3 Extensions of PCA and Related Tools

1. PCA: Lecture 3 Extensions of PCA and Related Tools • Extended EOF (EEOF), Singular spectrum analysis (SSA), M-SSA • Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) • Others • Complex EOFs • Maximum Covariance Analysis • Principal Oscillation Patterns (POP) • Independent Component Analysis (ISA)

2. Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) or Extended EOF (EEOF) • PCA makes use of correlation in SPACE • Weather and climate data (and other geoscience data) usually have high correlation in space. • PCA is a useful tool to learn about large scale patterns that explain most of the variability. • Since PCs find the combination of variables which explain most of the variability it is implied that PCs make use of the usually observed high correlation in space. • But geoscience data are often correlated in TIME • PCA does not take this into account • Auto and cross-correlation in time can be very useful for prediction purposes and also for building probabilistic time series models. • SSA/EEOFs used to handle temporal correlation • EEOFs are an extension of the traditional EOF technique to deal not only with spatial- but also with temporal correlations observed in (weather/climate) data • it is based on the auto-covariance matrix (instead of the usual spatial covariance matrix from PCA) • normally used to find propagating or periodic signals in the data

3. Extended EOF (EEOF) • Implementation for the univariate case • consider a single times series: xt, t = 1, … , n • like PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues are extracted from the covariance matrix • The covariance matrix is calculated using a delay window or imposing an embedding dimension of length M on the time series

4. Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) • Terminology • SSA is the application of PCA to time series • also know as EEOFs and Time PCs (T-PCs or T-EOFs) • when applied to multivariate data (many time series) it is known as multi-channel singular spectrum analysis (M-SSA) • Summary of what it does • application of PCA to time series which is structured into overlapping moving windows of data • the data vectors are fragments of time series rather than spatial distributions of values at a single time • the eigenvectors therefore represent characteristic time patterns, rather than characteristic spatial patterns • used mainly to identify oscillatory features in the time series

5. Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) Example application: searching for the sub-seasonal oscillations in the Tropical Pacific using Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) From Hannachi et al., Int. J. Clim., 2007

6. Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) Applying PCA and then SSA gives: First PC/EOF is the seasonal cycle From Hannachi et al., Int. J. Clim., 2007

7. Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) EPCs 4 and 5 Semi-annual variation in OLR EEOF/SSA can detect oscillatory or quasi-oscillatory features in the time series - as a pair of (degenerate) T-PCs - with same shape but offset by ¼ cycle - compare with Fourier analysis and pairs of sine, cosine functions EPCs 8 and 9 Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), an eastward propagating wave of tropical convective anomalies (dominant mode of intra-seasonal tropical variability) From Hannachi et al., Int. J. Clim., 2007

8. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) • Definition of CCA • identifies a sequence of pairs of patterns in 2 multivariate data sets, and constructs sets of transformed variables by projecting the original data onto these patterns • Difference between PCA and CCA • PCA looks for patterns with a single multivariate dataset that represent maximum amounts of the variation in the data • In CCA, the patterns are chosen such that the projected data onto these patterns exhibit maximum correlation – while being uncorrelated with the projections onto any other pattern • In other words: CCA identifies new variables that maximize the inter-relationships between two data sets, in contrast to the patterns describing the internal variability within a single dataset from PCA. • Link to Multiple Regression • Can be thought of as an extension to multiple regression • instead of predicting a scalar y, we are predicting a vector y

9. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) • Applications • In the atmospheric sciences, CCA has been used in diagnostic climatological studies, in the forecast of El Nino, and the forecast of long-range temperature and precipitation. • Example for a geophysical field: • vector x containing observations of one variable at a set of locations • vector y containing observations of a different variable at a set of locations that may be the same or different to those in x. • typically the data are time series of the observations of the two fields • x and y could be observed at the same time (coupled variability) • x and y could be lagged in time (statistical prediction)

10. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) • How to do it: • CCA extracts relationships between pairs of data vectors x and y from their joint covariance matrix • Remember: PCA is applied to the covariance matrix of x only • Concatenate x and y into a single vector, cT = [xT, yT] • Partition the covariance matrix of c, Sc into four blocks: • Transform the data, x and y, into sets of new variables (canonical variates), v and w: • v = aTx w = bTy • where a and b are linear weights (like eigenvectors) called canonical vectors

11. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) • Some things to note: • the number of pairs of canonical variates is the min(dim(x), dim(y)) • a and b are chosen such that • corr[v1, w1] >= corr[v2,w2] >= … >= corr[vm,wm] >= 0 (each of the M pairs of canonical variates exhibits no greater correlation than the previous pair) • corr[vk, wm] = rC(m) for k = m; corr[vk, wm] = 0 for k != m, where rC = canonical correlations (each canonical variate is uncorrelated with all other variates except its twin in the mth pair) • Calculation of canonical vectors and variates • eigen decomposition to get two sets of eigenvectors, em and fm • and shared eigenvalues; rC = sqrt(λ) • also can be done using SVD • Combining CCA and PCA • sometimes it is worth performing PCA on the two fields x and y and then CCA on the leading PCs ux and uy.

12. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) • A simple example • consider two normally distributed 2-D variables x and y with unit variance • let y1 + y2 = x1 + x2 • the correlation between x and y : • which is relatively weak despite the perfect linear relationship between x and y • If we apply CCA: • the largest and only canonical correlation is 1 • and this lies along the direction of the linear relationship • if we project the data onto the canonical vectors, then the correlation matrix is

13. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) Example application: Prediction of Wildfire in the Western U.S. • Seasonal wildfire forecasts based on spring PDSI • Use CCA to form linear relationships between PCs of seasonal acres burned (field 1) and PDSI (field 2) • Find optimally correlated patterns in the area burned and preceding soil moisture. • A linear forecast model was constructed using the first three canonical correlation pairs (CCs) calculated for the six area burned and six PDSI PCs. • BUT Longer lead time forecasts needed • Previously forecasts were based on March/April PDSI data but policy decisions must be made many months before the fire season. • So use CCA to form relationships between previous year’s Pacific SSTs and Jan PDSI Prediction of area burned for 2003 fire season From “Westerling et al., 2003, Statistical Forecasts of the 2003 Western Wildfire Season Using Canonical Correlation Analysis”

14. Other Extensions and Some Relatives • Complex-EOF • To extend the EOF analysis to the study of spatial structures that can propagate in time, one can perform a complex principal component analysis in the frequency domain. • Maximum Covariance Analysis (MCA) • Finds linear combinations of two sets of vector data, x and y, that maximizes their covariance (CCA maximizes their correlation). • Independent Component Analysis (ICA) • ICA seeks directions that are most statistically independent. i.e. that minimize the mutual information between the data. • Principal Oscillation Patterns (POP) • POPs are used to examine the oscillation properties and spatial structure of dynamical processes in the atmosphere