Characterizing causal dependencies through information flow: emerging frontier for understanding and prediction of earth system dynamics

Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Allison Eva Goodwell, University of Colorado Denver, Civil Engineering, Denver, CO, United States, Peishi Jiang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Benjamin L Ruddell, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States