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A single climate record, treated as the pullback attractor of a linear stochastic model driven by external forcing, can be decomposed exactly into forced response and internal variability, with the forced response matching or exceeding esta

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load-bearing objection A genuinely useful, clearly explained single-realization forced-response estimator with a mode-level decomposition; the headline skill claim is inflated by tuning the forcing variant on the test set, but the method and diagnostics are worth a serious referee. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2607.18298 v1 pith:PCMTDQJF submitted 2026-07-13 stat.ML cs.LGphysics.ao-ph

Disentangling Forced and Internal Climate Variability in Single Realizations using Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control

Nathan Mankovich , Andrei Gavrilov , Gustau Camps-Valls This is my paper
classification stat.ML cs.LGphysics.ao-ph MSC 37B5562M1086A10
keywords climate variabilityforced responseinternal variabilitydynamic mode decomposition with controlpullback attractorlinear stochastic modelsingle realizationEarth system model evaluation
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper claims there is a way to separate the forced response of the climate — the part driven by greenhouse gases, volcanoes, and solar changes — from internal variability such as ENSO and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, using only a single observed record rather than a large ensemble of model runs. The method, PullbackDMDc, fits a linear stochastic model whose evolution depends on external forcing, x(t) = Ax(t−1) + By(t) + ξ(t), and interprets the record as that model's pullback attractor. Because the model is linear, the attractor is a single trajectory that splits exactly: the forced response is the whole forcing history filtered through the system's decaying memory, and internal variability is the same filter applied to the noise. The authors show this estimate matches or beats established baselines on four Earth system model large ensembles, and that the mode-by-mode decomposition gives a new lens for evaluating models — observations keep slow multidecadal modes in the lead, while models bury that variability in faster ENSO-like modes. If right, this gives climate science a practical single-realization tool for attribution, projection, and model evaluation without the cost of large ensembles.

Core claim

One climate record can be split exactly into forced response and internal variability by treating it as the pullback attractor of a linear stochastic model with forcing, x(t) = Ax(t−1) + By(t) + ξ(t). For stable A, pulling the initial time to −∞ leaves two sums: the forced response Σ A^j B y(t−j), the forcing history through the system's decaying memory, and internal variability Σ A^j ξ(t−j), the same filter applied to noise. Projecting onto the eigenvectors of A (dynamic mode decomposition with control) yields spatial patterns, each with its own forced and internal time series. Tested against large-ensemble means from four Earth system models, the forced response matches or beats existing b

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the pullback attractor of a forced linear stochastic system. Where an ordinary attractor is a time-independent limit set, the pullback attractor is a time-dependent family of limit sets: at each time t it is what remains after the initial condition is forgotten, under the same non-autonomous changes (the forcing history) leading up to t. Because the model x(t) = Ax(t−1) + By(t) + ξ(t) is linear and stable, its pullback attractor collapses to a single trajectory, and the forced–internal split becomes exact rather than statistical: the forced response is the infinite convolution Σ_{j≥0} A^j B y(t−j) and internal variability is the same kernel acting on the noise. An

Load-bearing premise

The decomposition is valid only if the observed record is the pullback attractor of a stable linear model driven by exactly the forcing history supplied — if the real climate is nonlinear, has drivers not included in y(t), or carries memory longer than the 100-year spin-up, then the residual labelled 'internal variability' is contaminated by model error and the split is no longer clean.

What would settle it

Run the algorithm on a long, weakly forced stretch of an ESM large ensemble where internal variability dominates (e.g., a multidecadal window without major volcanoes). If members' PullbackDMDc forced-response estimates remain tightly clustered near the ensemble mean, the single-realization separation is real; if their spread matches the raw member-to-member spread, the method is just reshuffling internal variability into the residual. The same test on a nonlinear toy model with known components would show how much of the separation survives outside the linear assumption.

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If this is right

  • Forced-response estimation no longer requires a large ensemble: one realization plus a forcing history yields estimates that match or beat methods that either ignore forcing or ignore dynamics.
  • Separating volcanic forcing from slow greenhouse-gas forcing measurably improves the estimated response around eruptions, identifying which forcing predictors actually matter for each variable.
  • The mode decomposition becomes an ESM evaluation tool: reanalysis places slow multidecadal, AMO-like modes first and projects most of the forced signal onto them, while the models put ENSO-scale oscillatory modes first and spread the forced response across faster modes.
  • The internal-component autocorrelations expose a non-stationary seasonal cycle in reanalysis that the models largely fail to reproduce.
  • Forced-response skill tracks model climate sensitivity: higher-sensitivity models with a stronger forced signal are reconstructed more accurately, so method comparisons across models must account for signal-to-noise differences.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Implicit consequence: the method doubles as a check on forcing completeness — if the 'internal' series still carries low-frequency structure, some driver is missing from the supplied forcing history.
  • The forced time series of the leading modes could plausibly serve as fingerprints in detection-and-attribution regression, replacing ensemble-mean targets with single-realization estimates.
  • Because the authors note that noise and finite samples bias decay times toward faster decorrelation, part of the model-vs-observation reversal could be estimator bias rather than real model error; longer forcing histories or regularized operator fits would separate the two.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper introduces PullbackDMDc, a linear stochastic forcing-plus-dynamics model (Eq. 2.3) that decomposes a single climate realization into forced and internal components via the pullback attractor of the fitted system (Eq. 2.5). The method is applied to monthly SAT, OSAT, and SLP anomalies from 20CRv3 and four MMLEA-v2 large ensembles, with the ensemble mean treated as ground truth. The authors report that PullbackDMDc matches or exceeds linear regression and other baselines in forced-response skill, and that the resulting mode decomposition reveals systematic ESM–reanalysis differences in multidecadal variability, ENSO/PDO structure, and seasonal-cycle non-stationarity.

Significance. If validated, PullbackDMDc would be a practical, interpretable single-realization estimator of forced response and internal variability, with potential value for ESM evaluation and detection–attribution studies. The derivation is transparent and largely self-contained, the code is publicly available, and the paper is unusually candid about the linearity assumption, finite-sample bias, and spin-up limitations. The main empirical claim, however, is currently supported by a test-set selection procedure that inflates reported skill, and the absence of significance testing makes it difficult to assess robustness. These issues are fixable within the manuscript's scope, so the contribution is promising but not yet fully demonstrated.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. 3a, Figs. 1 and S1–S3] The headline claim that PullbackDMDc 'matches or exceeds' linear regression is based on selecting, for each variable, the best of three forcing-variant models (1D, 2D, 3D) after inspecting their skill against the same ensemble-mean ground truth used for scoring (OSAT/SAT → 3D, SLP → 2D). This is selection on the test set: the maximum of several correlated skill scores is biased upward relative to any pre-specified method. The comparison to LR is therefore against the best of three fitted models, not against a fixed method. Please add a holdout protocol—for example, choose the forcing dimension on a subset of ensemble members or a training period, then evaluate on held-out members—or pre-register the variant per variable. Without this, the abstract's 'matching or exceeding' overstates what is demonstrated.
  2. [Sec. 3a, Fig. 1] There is no significance testing or uncertainty quantification for the pooled skill comparison. The large points pool across ensemble members, and the text interprets small differences as meaningful (e.g., 'at least one PullbackDMDc variant matches or exceeds LR skill across all variables'). Report per-member skill distributions, paired tests or bootstrap confidence intervals for differences in MSE/correlation, and state decision thresholds. As written, the 'matching or exceeding' claim is not statistically grounded.
  3. [Sec. 2b2 and Sec. 4] The method's central separation of forced and internal components assumes that the 100-year spin-up makes initial-condition errors negligible (Sec. 2b2), but Sec. 4 later states that 'a≈100-year forcing history may be insufficient for full convergence of the pullback dynamics when intrinsic timescales are longer than those recovered here.' These statements need reconciliation. If the fitted A has eigenvalues with decay times well below 100 years, please state this explicitly and show supporting evidence; otherwise, provide a sensitivity analysis of the forced-response estimate to spin-up length (e.g., 200 and 500 years). This matters because a residual contaminated by initial-condition memory is not pure internal variability, which directly affects the decomposition-based ESM evaluation in Sec. 3b.
  4. [Sec. 2c and Supplementary Sec. g] Several key hyperparameters—PC truncation (20 vs 200), propagator lag τ=3y, the 100-year spin-up, and the forcing predictor set—are selected after inspecting results on the same data. Some of these are described in the text as chosen because they 'generally produce the most accurate' estimates. Even if the qualitative conclusions are insensitive to these choices, the reported quantitative skill should be accompanied by a clear statement of which choices were made a priori and which were tuned on the evaluation data. A systematic sensitivity table (e.g., varying τ and spin-up length) would strengthen the paper.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Fig. 1 caption] Typo: 'PullbackDMDc(2D) for PSL' should read 'SLP'.
  2. [Fig. S18 caption] Typo: 'ESNO' should be 'ENSO'.
  3. [Eq. (2.9)] The model equation uses \hat y(t−1), whereas Eq. (2.3) uses y(t). The indexing convention is explained in the supplementary, but a brief note in the main text near Eq. (2.9) would avoid confusion.
  4. [Sec. 2c] The statement that the 'optimal forcing dimension varies little across ESMs' is based on visual inspection of overlapping uncertainty regions. Please provide numerical support or a more formal comparison.
  5. [References] Some references are dated 2026 and may be in press or preprint; please ensure they are publicly accessible and cite the archival versions where available.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

Headline skill claim is inflated by selecting the forcing variant on the same ensemble-mean ground truth used for evaluation; the core estimator itself is not circular.

specific steps
  1. fitted input called prediction [Section 3a ('Choice of forcing in PullbackDMDc'); abstract]
    "Because the ESM ensemble mean provides a per-model ground truth, this comparison doubles as a principled way to select forcing predictors for PullbackDMDc."

    The forcing dimension (1D/2D/3D) is a hyperparameter selected by comparing each variant's skill against the same ensemble-mean ground truth used to compute the reported skill. The abstract's claim that 'PullbackDMDc estimates the forced response with skill matching or exceeding established baselines' is therefore the best of three fitted variants, not the skill of a pre-specified method. The selection criterion is the evaluation metric itself, so the headline performance is optimistically biased by construction; a holdout protocol would be needed.

full rationale

The paper's central estimator is not circular: Eq. (2.3) defines a linear stochastic model, Eq. (2.5) defines the forced response as the deterministic filter of the chosen forcing and internal variability as the residual, and Algorithm 1 computes this filter from a single realization. The ensemble-mean ground truth from large ESM ensembles is external to the fit, so the estimator could in principle fail; the decomposition is a modeling assumption rather than a tautological prediction. No self-citation is load-bearing (the cited Mankovich et al. 2025 is descriptive, not a uniqueness or ansatz argument). The one genuine circularity is in the evaluation: Section 3a states that the ESM ensemble mean 'doubles as a principled way to select forcing predictors,' and the paper then reports the skill of the best-performing variant per variable (PullbackDMDc(3D) for OSAT/SAT, PullbackDMDc(2D) for SLP) as 'PullbackDMDc matches or exceeds baselines.' Because the same ground truth is used both to choose the forcing dimension and to score the method, the headline skill is the best of three fitted variants, not the skill of a pre-specified model. This is selection-on-the-test-set bias and inflates the central empirical claim; a holdout protocol would remove it. Overall circularity is partial (4/10), not fundamental.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

7 free parameters · 7 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper contributes a decomposition that is exact for the fitted linear model, but the physical content rests on user choices (forcings, lag, PC truncation, spin-up) and on strong domain assumptions about linearity, forcing completeness, and ensemble-mean ground truth. No new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (7)
  • PC truncation for SAT/OSAT = 20 PCs
    Retained for temperature fields, motivated by ForceSMIP but a user choice that changes A, the modes, and the forced response estimate.
  • PC truncation for SLP = 200 PCs
    Chosen to capture the weak SLP forced signal; an arbitrary threshold that affects all SLP results.
  • Propagator time lag tau = 3 months (main text) vs 3 years (supplement)
    Reported inconsistently; supplement says lags of 1, 3, 6, 12 years were tested and 3 years selected. Strongly affects decay times and forced-response skill.
  • Spin-up forcing history length = 100 years
    Chosen as a conservative spin-up; the paper itself notes this may be insufficient for long-timescale convergence.
  • Forcing predictor set = 1D total ERF; 2D CO2+volcanic; 3D GHG+volcanic+aerosol
    The variant is selected per variable using the ensemble-mean ground truth that is also used for scoring, so the reported 'best' variant is chosen on the evaluation target.
  • Number of modes retained for interpretation = 4
    Selected after an elbow in decay-time and ACF plots; affects the ESM comparison in Sec. 3b.
  • SLP ground-truth smoothing = 3-year running mean
    Applied to the ensemble-mean SLP before scoring; improves apparent skill for all methods on SLP.
axioms (7)
  • domain assumption The fitted linear operator A is stable (all eigenvalues have magnitude below 1).
    Required for the pullback limit in Eq. (2.5) to converge; if violated, the forced response sum diverges.
  • domain assumption The climate response to external forcing is adequately linear over 1850–2014.
    Eq. (2.3) assumes linear dynamics; the paper notes nonlinearity would make the separation set-valued and non-exact.
  • domain assumption The chosen forcing time series (total ERF, or CO2/GHG+volcanic+aerosol) captures all relevant forced drivers.
    Omitted forcings (e.g., land use, solar, ozone) would be absorbed into the internal residual and bias the decomposition.
  • ad hoc to paper Initial conditions are forgotten by the analysis period / the 100-year spin-up is sufficient.
    Algorithm 1 sets x̂_0 = 0 and iterates the deterministic filter; Sec. 2b2 asserts observations lie on the attractor. The paper later concedes 100 years may be insufficient for long timescales.
  • domain assumption The large-ensemble mean is a valid ground-truth forced response.
    Used for all skill scores; the authors acknowledge it is inaccurate for small ensembles or large internal variability.
  • domain assumption PCA truncation preserves the forced response and dominant internal modes.
    20 or 200 PCs are used; any forced signal in discarded PCs is lost by construction.
  • standard math The noise term is well-behaved enough for least-squares estimates of A and B to be meaningful.
    Least squares does not require white noise for consistency, but serial correlation or correlation with forcing would bias A/B; this is not tested.

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We show that a single climate realization can be decomposed into forced and internal components by treating external forcing as a dynamical driver within a linear stochastic system, an idea grounded in pullback attractor theory. In doing so, we address a central methodological challenge in climate science with direct implications for climate projection and the detection and attribution of the forced response, disentangling the forced climate response from internal variability in a single observed record. Statistical methods range from approaches trained on large ensembles to techniques operating on single realizations. The latter often rely on linear frameworks such as linear inverse models (LIMs) and linear regression. LIMs ignore forcing predictors, whereas linear regression omits climate system dynamics. Here we introduce PullbackDMDc, a method grounded in non-autonomous dynamical systems theory and dynamic mode decomposition with control (DMDc), incorporating pullback attractor estimation to decompose a single climate realization into spatial modes and their associated forced and internal components, yielding a physically interpretable picture of the underlying dynamics. We illustrate the utility of PullbackDMDc for Earth System Model (ESM) evaluation by applying it to near-surface air temperature and sea-level pressure from reanalysis and four ESM large ensembles. PullbackDMDc estimates the forced response with skill matching or exceeding established baselines and identifies optimal forcing predictors against model-based ground truth. Its internal variability components reveal that ESMs qualitatively capture interannual and decadal modes while exhibiting systematic differences relative to each other and to observations. Skillful forced response estimation and a novel decomposition position PullbackDMDc as a practical tool for single-realization climate analysis and ESM evaluation.

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