TY - RPRT TI - Challenges and alternatives to empirical orthogonal functions for earth system data AU - Shields, Christine A. [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)] AU - DeSantis, Derek [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)] AU - Jonko, Alexandra [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)] AU - Lee, Jiwoo [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)] AU - Caron, Julie M. [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)] AU - Phillips, Adam S. [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)] AU - Fasullo, John [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)] PY - 2026 DO - 10.1038/s41598-026-49505-z UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3377495 ID - 3377495 ER -