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Insight from CMIP6 SSP-RCP scenarios for future drought characteristics in China

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ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
卷 250, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105375

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Climatic change; Drought; CMIP6; SSP-RCPs; China

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China MOST [2019YFC1510203]
  2. Cooperation Project of Cooperation Group in the Chinese and German Center of the Research Promotion, NSFC/DFG [GZ 1486]
  3. High-level Talent Recruitment Program of the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Research Start-up Fund of NUIST
  4. Guest Professor Program of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS
  5. Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province [KYCX20_O957]

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This study analyzes future drought characteristics over China using four climate models from CMIP6 under seven different scenarios, compared with CMIP5 models to highlight improvements in drought identification. The results show that CMIP6 has a robust capability in capturing historical drought characteristics, with projections of continuous drought in certain regions in the future, and an increase in drought frequency and intensity with higher emissions. The reduced biases in drought characteristics in CMIP6 models are likely associated with improvements in representing physical processes, providing valuable information for drought adaptation measures in China.
In this paper, future drought characteristics (frequency, duration and intensity) over China are analysed by using four climate models from CMIP6 under the seven SSP-RCP (shared socioeconomic pathway-representative concentration pathway) scenarios (SSP119, SSP126, SSP434, SSP245, SSP460, SSP370, and SSP585) for three defined periods of 2021-2040 (near-term), 2041-2060 (mid-term) and 2081-2100 (long-term). The corresponding four climate models output from CMIP5 are also used to conduct a comparison analysis between CMIP5 and CMIP6 to address the improvements added to CMIP6 in terms of drought identification. The drought characteristics are identified by applying the standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index (SPEI) at a 12-month timescale and run theory. The results show that CMIP6 has a robust capability to capture historical (1986-2005) drought characteristics. For the future period of 2021-2040, the decrease in precipitation and increase in potential evapotranspiration will lead to continuous dry conditions in the upper and middle Yangtze River basin and eastern Pearl River basin. Relative to the reference period, drought events will be more frequent and severe with longer durations in the Northwest River basins and middle Yangtze River basin. Furthermore, higher emissions signify a greater increase in drought frequency and intensity in the long-term period. Except for the SSP585 scenario, the lower emission scenario corresponds to the higher drought duration soon and in the mid-21st century (2021-2060). This finding is regarded as a strange phenomenon, which cannot be detected by the previous CMIP5-based emission scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and the unlikely pathway RCP8.5). Therefore, additional possible future-based scenarios (SSP119, SSP126, SSP434, SSP245, SSP460, and SSP370) should be included in extreme climate studies, especially for the near future and mid-21st century. Notably, compared with CMIP5, the reduced biases in drought characteristics are more likely associated with improvements in the representation of physical processes in climate models from CMIP6. The results of this study could provide a basis for the development of drought adaptation measures over China.

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