4. Discussion and Results
In order to study the climate, one needs to visualize the time evolution of the climate variables and we can get a comprehensive understanding of each one of them. This allows us to detect extremes, trends, and the overall climate characteristics.
Figure 1, shows the time evolution of each climate variable.
Figure 1 and
Figure 1, presents the evolution of the maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and dew point in Keliven. It is clear that we have a cyclic evolution yearly, whereas the maximum of each cycle is reached in the half of each year and the minimum is recorded at the beginning and the end of each year. Indeed, the cloud cover and humidity percentage have no cyclic evolution as shown in
Figure 2,
Figure 2. If we look insight, we can detect a trend of increase in the maximum precipitation values with an extreme values in 2015 as shown in
Figure 2.
Figure 3 presents a roughly oscillation without any cyclic evolution whereas the mean values are approximately constant. Snow is a discrete time phenomena happening per year, so as in
Figure 3, total snow is recorded in between sequential two years. Indeed the total snow has its extreme in 2016 and 2017. In
Figure 3, wind speed has a cyclic evolution with fluctuations in each year. Also, the minimum value are approximately stationary with respect to the variation in the maximum values.
In this analysis of a time evolution in the feature space, the classical information CI, the quantum information QI, the decoherent information DI, Shannon entropy and von Neumann entropy are plotted against the months as the time units from Jan/2009 into Dec/2021. Information has distinct realms, each with its own unique characteristics, and through which we can understand systems.
The classical information, the quantum information, the decoherent information, Shannon entropy and von Neumann entropy are computed for monthly mixed states by Equations (
5), (
6), (
8), (
11), (
12), (
17), (
18), (
19), and all numerical values are mentioned in tables.
Table 2,
Table 3,
Table 4,
Table 5 and
Table 6 refer to the classical information, the quantum information, the decoherent information, Shannon entropy and von Neumann entropy rerspcetively. Each table includes 132 numerical values refers to years from 2009 to 2019 vertically and to months horizontally from January to December.
In
Table 2, values of CI provide the effect individually of each weather variable of a range
In
Table 3, values of QI describe the mutual interaction of pair of two variables of a range
. Obviously, QI values enlarge comparison with values of CI. Therefore, the effect of QI is greater than the effect of CI in this system. In
Table 4, DI values are small relative to QI and CI and has a range
. In
Table 5,
values describe the classical noise of CI and is ranged by
in
Table 6,
values describe the noise of DI of a range
. It noted that
values weaken relative to
values.
In order to predict quantum informative measures for proceeding years, the time evolution of quantum informative measures can be categorized by oscillating forms for the monthly evolution. We can adopt the time series function like Fourier series as a fitted function to express for quantum informative measures of the time
t which takes the form:
where the time unit is the month and varies from 1 to 156 to express for years from 2009 to 2021. Also,
are real parameters which are detemined by the fitting curve method. The fitting curve method is applied from 2009 to 2017 where
and we compare predicated results with computational values in
Table 2,
Table 3,
Table 4,
Table 5 and
Table 6 from 2018 and 2019, where
. Hence, we predict values for each quantum informative measure for 2020 and
where
Parameters of Equation (
20) are determined In
Table 7 for
,
,
,
and
.
Table 8 presents a comprehensive analysis of the statistical parameters for predicted data CI, QI, DI,
, and
based on data from 2009 to 2019. The parameters evaluated include maximum error
, average error
minimum error
standard deviation
and Pearson correlation
Among the models, CI demonstrates the lowest errors, with
and
, indicating more consistent predictions with minimal deviation. Conversely, Shannon entopy shows the highest errors, with
and
. The minimum error values across all models are in the range of
with CI having the lowest at
and Shannon entropy the highest at
. The standard deviation, which reflects the spread of prediction errors, is lowest for CI at 0.0036 and highest for S_Pred at 0.0092, reinforcing the observation that CI offers more stable predictions. In terms of performance accuracy, CI scores the highest with
P at 0.8619, indicating superior reliability, while QI has the lowest accuracy at 0.4705. Overall, the table suggests that CI outperforms the other models in terms of error minimization and prediction accuracy, making it the most reliable among the five models analyzed.
In
Table 9, all predicted values of each quantum informative measure are recorded from 2020 to 2021 based on months from
Each quantum informative measure investigates monthly mixed weather states. In all figures, each quantum informative measure is plotted versus the months as the unit time from 1 to 156 where the month domain
provides the computational values and the month domain
presents predicted values, especially future predicted values from 133 to 156. The blue curve represents computational values and the red curve shows predicted values. The shaded area on the right figure during the period
marks the prediction period for 2020 and 2021. Predicated curves are plotted by Equation (
20) and Tables (
Table 7,
Table 9). All curves are taken in waveforms.
Figure 4,
Figure 5 and
Figure 6 show a comparison between three distinct types of the information; CI, QI, and DI, respectively. In
Figure 4, the classical information is plotted by
Table 2,
Table 7 and
Table 8 and Equation (
20) versus months in two curves. Two curves are close in nearly sinusoidal forms with a cyclic behavior. It has maximum extremes in summer and minimum in winter.
In
Figure 5, by
Table 3,
Table 7 and
Table 8 and Equation (
20), the quantum information is plotted against months in two curves. The computational curve fluctuates far the predicted curve. The computational curve appears in an irregular behavior while the predicted curve has regular behavior. However, it depicts fluctuations in QI with no clear long-term increasing or decreasing trend.
By
Table 4,
Table 7,
Table 8 and Equation (
20), the decoherent information is provided graphically versus months by two curves in
Figure 6. The computational curve undergoes slight fluctuations but the predicated curve is regular. Indeed, the system exhibits a high value of the quantum information relative to the classical information which means that the model behaves like a real quantum model rather than a classical one. When the information measures are compared; QI exhibits the highest value with respect to CI and DI. This proves that a treatment of the quantum mechanical system will provide with considerable information with respect to classical one.
Investigating two distinct types of entropy;
and
is shown in
Figure 7 and
Figure 8 respectively. In
Figure 7, Shannon entropy is plotted against months by
Table 5,
Table 7 and
Table 8 and Equation (
20), in two curves. Clearly, the predicted curve is close to the computational curve with some slight fluctuations after
Shannon entropy describes a noise in the classical information with high values comparing with classical information values.
In
Figure 8, von Neumann entropy is plotted against months by
Table 6,
Table 7 and
Table 8 and Equation (
20), in two curves. von Neumann entropy fluctuates in recent years and has small values which are near to values of the decoherent information. Indeed, the system exhibits a high value of Shannon entropy with respect to the von Neumann entropy approximately 10 times it. There is an oscillatory behavior in both measures due to the periodicity in weather dynamics. Measured values of von Neumann entropy prove the uncertainty of predicting the weather for a month relative to the Shannon entropy.
The analysis of Vancouver’s weather dynamics from 2009 to 2019 through the lens of quantum information theory provides a unique perspective on climate data interpretation. Using concepts from various studies, such as the application of fuzzy logic in decision making [
20] and the exploration of quantum entropy in physical systems [
21,
22], the research integrates advanced mathematical frameworks to model weather patterns. Additionally, insights from quantum classification algorithms [
23,
24] and the role of entanglement in complex systems [
25,
26,
27,
28,
29] further enhance the robustness of this analysis. By synthesizing these diverse approaches, the study aims to reveal intricate relationships in weather dynamics, potentially leading to improved predictive models and a deeper understanding of climatic shifts in the Vancouver area.