Classify environmental and meteorological variables into driver categories for attribution analysis. Use when you need to group multiple variables into meaningful factor categories.
When analyzing what drives changes in an environmental system, it is useful to group individual variables into broader categories based on their physical meaning.
Variables related to thermal energy and radiation:
Variables related to water movement:
Variables related to atmospheric circulation:
Variables related to anthropogenic activities:
Sometimes raw variables need to be combined before analysis:
# Combine radiation components into net radiation
df['NetRadiation'] = df['Longwave'] + df['Shortwave']
After statistical grouping, verify that: