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JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY
卷 16, 期 4, 页码 1773-1792出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0019.1
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant [EAR-1344595]
- NOAA [NA10OAR4320148]
- NSF [AGS-0753581]
- Directorate For Geosciences [1344454] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1344595] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Gridded spatiotemporal maps of precipitation are essential for hydrometeorological and ecological analyses. In the United States, most of these datasets are developed using the Cooperative Observer (COOP) network of ground-based precipitation measurements, interpolation, and the Parameter-Elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) to map these measurements to places where data are not available. Here, we evaluate two daily datasets gridded at 1/16 degrees resolution against independent daily observations from over 100 snow pillows in California's Sierra Nevada from 1990 to 2010. Over the entire period, the gridded datasets performed reasonably well, with median total water-year errors generally falling within +/- 10%. However, errors in individual storm events sometimes exceeded 50% for the median difference across all stations, and in many cases, the same underpredicted storms appear in both datasets. Synoptic analysis reveals that these underpredicted storms coincide with 700-hPa winds from the west or northwest, which are associated with post-cold-frontal flow and disproportionately small precipitation rates in low-elevation valley locations, where the COOP stations are primarily located. This atmospheric circulation leads to a stronger than normal valley-to-mountain precipitation gradient and underestimation of actual mountain precipitation. Because of the small average number of storms (, 10) reaching California each year, these individual storm misses can lead to large biases (similar to 20%) in total water-year precipitation and thereby significantly affect estimates of statewide water resources.
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