Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI2017

Climate informatics is an emerging research area that combines the fields of climate science and data science (specifically machine learning, data mining and statistics) to accelerate scientific discovery in climate science. The annual climate informatics workshop, held at NCAR's Mesa Lab since 2012, promotes new collaborations and discusses new methods and directions for this emerging field. This year's proceedings contain 27 peer-reviewed short papers presented at the workshop, which describe many new methods and advances in the field. Making these papers available to all interested researchers is essential to maximize further advances in this important field.