Simulation of maize yield in current and changed climatic conditions: Addressing modelling uncertainties and the importance of bias correction in climate model simulations

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Ceglar ◽  
Lučka Kajfež-Bogataj
Keyword(s):  
Bias Correction ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Maize Yield ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Modelling Uncertainties ◽  
Climate Model Simulations

scholarly journals Bias Correction, Quantile Mapping, and Downscaling: Revisiting the Inflation Issue

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 2137-2143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Maraun
Keyword(s):  
Regional Climate Model ◽  
Bias Correction ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Daily Precipitation ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Quantile Mapping ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Scale Mismatch ◽  
Climate Model Simulations

Abstract Quantile mapping is routinely applied to correct biases of regional climate model simulations compared to observational data. If the observations are of similar resolution as the regional climate model, quantile mapping is a feasible approach. However, if the observations are of much higher resolution, quantile mapping also attempts to bridge this scale mismatch. Here, it is shown for daily precipitation that such quantile mapping–based downscaling is not feasible but introduces similar problems as inflation of perfect prognosis (“prog”) downscaling: the spatial and temporal structure of the corrected time series is misrepresented, the drizzle effect for area means is overcorrected, area-mean extremes are overestimated, and trends are affected. To overcome these problems, stochastic bias correction is required.

scholarly journals Joint bias correction of temperature and precipitation in climate model simulations

2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (23) ◽  
pp. 13,153-13,162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Li ◽  
Eva Sinha ◽  
Daniel E. Horton ◽  
Noah S. Diffenbaugh ◽  
Anna M. Michalak
Keyword(s):  
Bias Correction ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation ◽  
Climate Model Simulations

scholarly journals Can Bias Correction of Regional Climate Model Lateral Boundary Conditions Improve Low-Frequency Rainfall Variability?

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (24) ◽  
pp. 9785-9806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eytan Rocheta ◽  
Jason P. Evans ◽  
Ashish Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Regional Climate Model ◽  
Bias Correction ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Lateral Boundary ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Low Frequency Variability ◽  
Climate Model Simulations

Global climate model simulations inherently contain multiple biases that, when used as boundary conditions for regional climate models, have the potential to produce poor downscaled simulations. Removing these biases before downscaling can potentially improve regional climate change impact assessment. In particular, reducing the low-frequency variability biases in atmospheric variables as well as modeled rainfall is important for hydrological impact assessment, predominantly for the improved simulation of floods and droughts. The impact of this bias in the lateral boundary conditions driving the dynamical downscaling has not been explored before. Here the use of three approaches for correcting the lateral boundary biases including mean, variance, and modification of sample moments through the use of a nested bias correction (NBC) method that corrects for low-frequency variability bias is investigated. These corrections are implemented at the 6-hourly time scale on the global climate model simulations to drive a regional climate model over the Australian Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) domain. The results show that the most substantial improvement in low-frequency variability after bias correction is obtained from modifying the mean field, with smaller changes attributed to the variance. Explicitly modifying monthly and annual lag-1 autocorrelations through NBC does not substantially improve low-frequency variability attributes of simulated precipitation in the regional model over a simpler mean bias correction. These results raise questions about the nature of bias correction techniques that are required to successfully gain improvement in regional climate model simulations and show that more complicated techniques do not necessarily lead to more skillful simulation.

scholarly journals The representation of location by regional climate models in complex terrain

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 3011-3028 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Maraun ◽  
M. Widmann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bias Correction ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Climate Change Signal ◽  
Model Errors ◽  
Model Simulations ◽  
Local Grid ◽  
Climate Model Simulations

Abstract. To assess potential impacts of climate change for a specific location, one typically employs climate model simulations at the grid box corresponding to the same geographical location. But based on regional climate model simulations, we show that simulated climate might be systematically displaced compared to observations. In particular in the rain shadow of moutain ranges, a local grid box is therefore often not representative of observed climate: the simulated windward weather does not flow far enough across the mountains; local grid boxes experience the wrong airmasses and atmospheric circulation. In some cases, also the local climate change signal is deteriorated. Classical bias correction methods fail to correct these location errors. Often, however, a distant simulated time series is representative of the considered observed precipitation, such that a non-local bias correction is possible. These findings also clarify limitations of bias correcting global model errors, and of bias correction against station data.

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