Oceanography

ARDA ingests multi-source oceanographic data — temperature-salinity profiles, velocity measurements, sea surface height, biogeochemical concentrations — and produces typed scientific claims about the governing dynamics of ocean systems. Its discovery modes identify circulation equations, mixing rate laws, and thermohaline relationships without pre-specified model structures. ARDA handles the irregular sampling and multi-scale nature of oceanographic data, discovering governing relationships from observational records that span different instruments, platforms, and temporal resolutions, bridging the gap between sparse ocean observations and the physical laws they encode.

ARDA's regime classification identifies structural transitions in ocean dynamics — El Niño-Southern Oscillation phase changes, deep water formation events, upwelling and downwelling regime shifts — and characterizes their governing physics automatically. The Causal mode maps causal pathways in ocean systems, separating wind-driven from thermohaline circulation effects and identifying the causal drivers of biogeochemical variability. The Evidence Ledger ensures full reproducibility, with deterministic replay and provenance tracking that support the collaborative, multi-institutional nature of oceanographic research. Conservation law detection validates mass and energy balance in observational datasets.