Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Predicting Cloud Condensation Nuclei from AOS Measurements (Total Smokeshow)

2026 ARM Summer School Project

Explainable XGBoost machine learning model for prediction of cloud condensation nucleai (at 10m) from other measurable aerosol quantities.

Project Scope

• Develop and train a ML model to obtain 10-m estimates of CCN from aerosol properties.
• Use explainable AI to test model understanding of physics

Final Presentation

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