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Does the weighting of climate simulations result in a better quantification of hydrological impacts?

Wang, Hui-Min ; Chen, Jie ; Xu, Chong-Yu ; Chen, Hua ; Guo, Shenglian ; Xie, Ping ; Li, Xiangquan

Hydrology and earth system sciences, 2019-09, Vol.23 (10), p.4033-4050 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Katlenburg-Lindau: Copernicus GmbH

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  • Título:
    Does the weighting of climate simulations result in a better quantification of hydrological impacts?
  • Autor: Wang, Hui-Min ; Chen, Jie ; Xu, Chong-Yu ; Chen, Hua ; Guo, Shenglian ; Xie, Ping ; Li, Xiangquan
  • Assuntos: Bias ; Climate change ; Climate models ; Computer simulation ; Environmental impact ; Global climate ; Global climate models ; Global temperature changes ; Hydraulic flow ; Hydrologic models ; Hydrologic regime ; Hydrologic studies ; Hydrology ; Simulation ; Stream discharge ; Stream flow ; Streamflow ; Uncertainty ; Water runoff ; Weighting methods
  • É parte de: Hydrology and earth system sciences, 2019-09, Vol.23 (10), p.4033-4050
  • Descrição: With the increase in the number of available global climate models (GCMs), pragmatic questions come up in using them to quantify climate change impacts on hydrology: is it necessary to unequally weight GCM outputs in the impact studies, and if so, how should they be weighted? Some weighting methods have been proposed based on the performances of GCM simulations with respect to reproducing the observed climate. However, the process from climate variables to hydrological responses is nonlinear, and thus the assigned weights based on performances of GCMs in climate simulations may not be correctly translated to hydrological responses. Assigning weights to GCM outputs based on their ability to represent hydrological simulations is more straightforward. Accordingly, the present study assigns weights to GCM simulations based on their ability to reproduce hydrological characteristics and investigates their influences on the quantification of hydrological impacts. Specifically, eight weighting schemes are used to determine the weights of GCM simulations based on streamflow series simulated by a lumped hydrological model using raw or bias-corrected GCM outputs. The impacts of weighting GCM simulations are investigated in terms of reproducing the observed hydrological regimes for the reference period (1970–1999) and quantifying the uncertainty of hydrological changes for the future period (2070–2099). The results show that when using raw GCM outputs to simulate streamflows, streamflow-based weights have a better performance in reproducing observed mean hydrograph than climate-variable-based weights. However, when bias correction is applied to GCM simulations before driving the hydrological model, the streamflow-based unequal weights do not bring significant differences in the multi-model ensemble mean and uncertainty of hydrological impacts, since bias-corrected climate simulations become rather close to observations. Thus, it is likely that using bias correction and equal weighting is viable and sufficient for hydrological impact studies.
  • Editor: Katlenburg-Lindau: Copernicus GmbH
  • Idioma: Inglês;Norueguês
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