期刊
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 29, 期 5, 页码 1605-1615出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0162.1
关键词
Model errors; Model evaluation/performance; Statistical techniques; Model comparison; Climate models; Models and modeling; Model output statistics; Mathematical and statistical techniques
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation [CRSII2_136279]
- Swiss Federal Office of the Environment
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [CRSII2_136279] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Climate impact studies constitute the basis for the formulation of adaptation strategies. Usually such assessments apply statistically postprocessed output of climate model projections to force impact models. Increasingly, time series with daily resolution are used, which require high consistency, for instance with respect to transition probabilities (TPs) between wet and dry days and spell durations. However, both climate models and commonly applied statistical tools have considerable uncertainties and drawbacks. This paper compares the ability of 1) raw regional climate model (RCM) output, 2) bias-corrected RCM output, and 3) a conventional weather generator (WG) that has been calibrated to match observed TPs to simulate the sequence of dry, wet, and very wet days at a set of long-term weather stations across Switzerland. The study finds systematic biases in TPs and spell lengths for raw RCM output, but a substantial improvement after bias correction using the deterministic quantile mapping technique. For the region considered, bias-corrected climate model output agrees well with observations in terms of TPs as well as dry and wet spell durations. For the majority of cases (models and stations) bias-corrected climate model output is similar in skill to a simple Markov chain stochastic weather generator. There is strong evidence that bias-corrected climate model simulations capture the atmospheric event sequence more realistically than a simple WG.
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