期刊
ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
卷 50, 期 1, 页码 57-72出版社
KOREAN METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1007/s13143-014-0050-5
关键词
Extreme climate; temperature; future change; uncertainty; East Asia; CMIP5; RCP 4.5
资金
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant - Korea government (MEST) [2011-0021927]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [131S-5-3-0556] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
How well the climate models simulate extreme temperature over East Asia and how the extreme indices would change under anthropogenic global warming are investigated. The indices studied include hot days (HD), tropical nights (TN), growing degree days (GDD), and cooling degree days (CDD) in summer and heating degree days (HDD) and frost days (FD) in winter. The representative concentration pathway 4.5 (RCP 4.5) experiments for the period of 2075-2099 are compared with historical simulations for the period of 1979-2005 from 15 coupled models that are participated in phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). To optimally estimate future change and its uncertainty, groups of best models are selected based on Taylor diagrams, relative entropy, and probability density function (PDF) methods previously suggested. Overall, the best models' multi-model ensemble based on Taylor diagrams has the lowest errors in reproducing temperature extremes in the present climate among three methods. Selected best models in three methods tend to project considerably different changes in the extreme indices from each other, indicating that the selection of reliable models are of critical importance to reduce uncertainties. Three groups of best models show significant increase of summer-based indices but decrease of the winter-based indices. Over East Asia, the most significant increase is seen in the HD (336 +/- 23.4% of current climate) and the most significant decrease is appeared in the HDD (82 +/- 4.2%). It is suggested that the larger future change in the HD is found over in the Southeastern China region, probably due to a higher local maximum temperature in the present climate. All of the indices show the largest uncertainty over Southeastern China, particularly in the TN (similar to 3.9 times as large as uncertainty over East Asia) and in the HD (similar to 2.4). It is further noted that the TN reveals the largest uncertainty over three East Asian countries (similar to 1.7 and 1.4 over Korea and Japan, respectively). These future changes in extreme temperature events have an important implication for energy-saving applications and human molarity in the future.
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