Uncertainty analysis of statistical downscaling methods using Canadian Global Climate Model predictors

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 3085-3104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sajjad Khan ◽  
Paulin Coulibaly ◽  
Yonas Dibike
Keyword(s):  
Uncertainty Analysis ◽  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model

scholarly journals Uncovering the shortcomings of a weather typing method

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 2671-2686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Els Van Uytven ◽  
Jan De Niel ◽  
Patrick Willems
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Precipitation Amount ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Typing Method ◽  
Weather Typing ◽  
Precipitation Changes

Abstract. In recent years many methods for statistical downscaling of the precipitation climate model outputs have been developed. Statistical downscaling is performed under general and method-specific (structural) assumptions but those are rarely evaluated simultaneously. This paper illustrates the verification and evaluation of the downscaling assumptions for a weather typing method. Using the observations and outputs of a global climate model ensemble, the skill of the method is evaluated for precipitation downscaling in central Belgium during the winter season (December to February). Shortcomings of the studied method have been uncovered and are identified as biases and a time-variant predictor–predictand relationship. The predictor–predictand relationship is found to be informative for historical observations but becomes inaccurate for the projected climate model output. The latter inaccuracy is explained by the increased importance of the thermodynamic processes in the precipitation changes. The results therefore question the applicability of the weather typing method for the case study location. Besides the shortcomings, the results also demonstrate the added value of the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship for precipitation amount scaling. The verification and evaluation of the downscaling assumptions are a tool to design a statistical downscaling ensemble tailored to end-user needs.

scholarly journals Chaotic Statistical Downscaling (CSD): Application and Comparison in the Bogotá River Basin

10.29007/wkcx ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freddy Duarte ◽  
Gerald Corzo ◽  
Germán Santos ◽  
Oscar Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Time Delay ◽  
Phase Space ◽  
Predictive Model ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Deterministic Chaos ◽  
Climatic Information

This study presents a new statistical downscaling method called Chaotic Statistical Downscaling (CSD). The method is based on three main steps: Phase space reconstruction for different time steps, identification of deterministic chaos and a general synchronization predictive model. The Bogotá river basin was used to test the methodology. Two sources of climatic information are downscaled: the first corresponds to 47 rainfall gauges stations (1970-2016, daily) and the second is derived from the information of the global climate model MPI-ESM-MR with a resolution of 1,875° x 1,875° daily resolution. These time series were used to reconstruct the phase space using the Method of Time-Delay. The Time-Delay method allows us to find the appropriate values of the time delay and the embedding dimension to capture the dynamics of the attractor. This information was used to calculate the exponents of Lyapunov, which shows the existence of deterministic chaos. Subsequently, a predictive model is created based on the general synchronization of two dynamical systems. Finally, the results obtained are compared with other statistical downscaling models for the Bogota River basin using different measures of error which show that the proposed method is able to reproduce reliable rainfall values (RMSE=73.37).

scholarly journals Is time a variable like the others in multivariate statistical downscaling and bias correction?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1253-1273
Author(s):  
Yoann Robin ◽  
Mathieu Vrac
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Bias Correction ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Synthetic Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Temporal Properties

Abstract. Bias correction and statistical downscaling are now regularly applied to climate simulations to make then more usable for impact models and studies. Over the last few years, various methods were developed to account for multivariate – inter-site or inter-variable – properties in addition to more usual univariate ones. Among such methods, temporal properties are either neglected or specifically accounted for, i.e. differently from the other properties. In this study, we propose a new multivariate approach called “time-shifted multivariate bias correction” (TSMBC), which aims to correct the temporal dependency in addition to the other marginal and multivariate aspects. TSMBC relies on considering the initial variables at various times (i.e. lags) as additional variables to be corrected. Hence, temporal dependencies (e.g. auto-correlations) to be corrected are viewed as inter-variable dependencies to be adjusted and an existing multivariate bias correction (MBC) method can then be used to answer this need. This approach is first applied and evaluated on synthetic data from a vector auto-regressive (VAR) process. In a second evaluation, we work in a “perfect model” context where a regional climate model (RCM) plays the role of the (pseudo-)observations, and where its forcing global climate model (GCM) is the model to be downscaled or bias corrected. For both evaluations, the results show a large reduction of the biases in the temporal properties, while inter-variable and spatial dependence structures are still correctly adjusted. However, increasing the number of lags too much does not necessarily improve the temporal properties, and an overly strong increase in the number of dimensions of the dataset to be corrected can even imply some potential instability in the adjusted and/or downscaled results, calling for a reasoned use of this approach for large datasets.

Estimates of Twenty-First-Century Flood Risk in the Pacific Northwest Based on Regional Climate Model Simulations

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1881-1899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric P. Salathé ◽  
Alan F. Hamlet ◽  
Clifford F. Mass ◽  
Se-Yeun Lee ◽  
Matt Stumbaugh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Hydrologic Model ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Physically Based

Abstract Results from a regional climate model simulation show substantial increases in future flood risk (2040–69) in many Pacific Northwest river basins in the early fall. Two primary causes are identified: 1) more extreme and earlier storms and 2) warming temperatures that shift precipitation from snow to rain dominance over regional terrain. The simulations also show a wide range of uncertainty among different basins stemming from localized storm characteristics. While previous research using statistical downscaling suggests that many areas in the Pacific Northwest are likely to experience substantial increases in flooding in response to global climate change, these initial estimates do not adequately represent the effects of changes in heavy precipitation. Unlike statistical downscaling techniques applied to global climate model scenarios, the regional model provides an explicit, physically based simulation of the seasonality, size, location, and intensity of historical and future extreme storms, including atmospheric rivers. This paper presents climate projections from the ECHAM5/Max Planck Institute Ocean Model (MPI-OM) global climate model dynamically downscaled using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model implemented at 12-km resolution for the period 1970–2069. The resulting daily precipitation and temperature data are bias corrected and used as input to a physically based Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrologic model. From the daily time step simulations of streamflow produced by the hydrologic model, probability distributions are fit to the extreme events extracted from each water year and flood statistics for various return intervals are estimated.

scholarly journals Reassessing Statistical Downscaling Techniques for Their Robust Application under Climate Change Conditions

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Gutiérrez ◽  
D. San-Martín ◽  
S. Brands ◽  
R. Manzanas ◽  
S. Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Lower Troposphere ◽  
Temperature Inversion ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Climate Conditions

Abstract The performance of statistical downscaling (SD) techniques is critically reassessed with respect to their robust applicability in climate change studies. To this end, in addition to standard accuracy measures and distributional similarity scores, the authors estimate the robustness of the methods under warming climate conditions working with anomalous warm historical periods. This validation framework is applied to intercompare the performances of 12 different SD methods (from the analog, weather typing, and regression families) for downscaling minimum and maximum temperatures in Spain. First, a calibration of these methods is performed in terms of both geographical domains and predictor sets; the results are highly dependent on the latter, with optimum predictor sets including near-surface temperature data (in particular 2-m temperature), which appropriately discriminate cold episodes related to temperature inversion in the lower troposphere. Although regression methods perform best in terms of correlation, analog and weather generator approaches are more appropriate for reproducing the observed distributions, especially in case of wintertime minimum temperature. However, the latter two families significantly underestimate the temperature anomalies of the warm periods considered in this work. This underestimation is found to be critical when considering the warming signal in the late twenty-first century as given by a global climate model [the ECHAM5–Max Planck Institute (MPI) model]. In this case, the different downscaling methods provide warming values with differences in the range of 1°C, in agreement with the robustness significance values. Therefore, the proposed test is a promising technique for detecting lack of robustness in statistical downscaling methods applied in climate change studies.

Statistical downscaling of global climate model outputs to monthly precipitation via extreme learning machine: A case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1853-1862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meysam Alizamir ◽  
Mehdi Azhdary Moghadam ◽  
Arman Hashemi Monfared ◽  
Aliakbar Shamsipour
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Learning Machine ◽  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Monthly Precipitation ◽  
Learning Machine

scholarly journals Is time a variable like the others in multivariate statistical downscaling and bias correction?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoann Robin ◽  
Mathieu Vrac
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Downscaling ◽  
Bias Correction ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Synthetic Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Temporal Properties

Abstract. Bias correction and statistical downscaling are now regularly applied to climate simulations to make then more usable for impact models and studies. Over the last few years, various methods were developed to account for multivariate – inter-site or inter-variable – properties in addition to more usual univariate ones. Among such methods, temporal properties are either neglected or specifically accounted for, i.e., differently from the other properties. In this study, we propose a new multivariate approach called “Time Shifted Multivariate Bias Correction” (TSMBC), which targets to correct the temporal dependency in addition to the other marginal and multivariate aspects. TSMBC relies on considering the initial variables at various times (i.e., lags) as additional variables to correct. Hence, temporal dependencies (e.g., auto-correlations) to correct are viewed as inter-variable dependencies to be adjusted and an existing multivariate bias correction (MBC) method can then be used to answer this need. This approach is first applied and evaluated on synthetic data from a Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) process. In a second evaluation, we work in a “perfect model” context where a Regional Climate Model (RCM) plays the role of the (pseudo-) observations, and where its forcing Global Climate Model (GCM) is the model to be downscaled/bias corrected. For both evaluations, the results show a large reduction of the biases in the temporal properties, while inter-variable and spatial dependence structures are still correctly adjusted. However, increasing too much the number of lags to consider does not necessarily improve the temporal properties and a too strong increase in the number of dimensions of the dataset to correct can even imply some potential instability in the adjusted/downscaled results, calling for a reasoned use of this approach for large datasets.

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