Table 1 Ablation study of the contrail prediction ML model

From: Feasibility test of per-flight contrail avoidance in commercial aviation

Features removed

Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve

Δ

None

0.855

 

Humidity (q,r)

0.841

0.014

Cloud data (ciwc, cswc, cc)

0.846

0.009

Vertical transport (d,v,w)

0.847

0.008

Temperature (t)

0.853

0.002

Horizontal transport(u,v)

0.854

0.001

Humidity and clouds (q, r, ciwc, cswc, cc)

0.792

0.063

  1. The symbols inside the brackets are the names of the quantites in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecasting System data. The first row shows results using all the features we use, other rows show the effects of removing some features.
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