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DOI | 10.1002/joc.6005 |
Assessments of downscaled climate data with a high-resolution weather station network reveal consistent but predictable bias | |
Roberts, David R.1,2; Wood, Wendy H.2; Marshall, Shawn J.2 | |
2019-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY |
ISSN | 0899-8418 |
EISSN | 1097-0088 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 39期号:6页码:3091-3103 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Canada |
英文摘要 | Ecological analyses often incorporate high-resolution environmental data to capture species-environment relationships in modelling applications, and downscaled climate data are increasingly being used for such analyses. While such data products provide high precision, the accuracy of these data is seldom directly tested. Consequently, introduced bias from downscaling algorithms may propagate through analyses that incorporate these data products. Here, we utilize data from the Foothills Climate Array (FCA), a mesoscale grid of 232 weather stations in the prairies and eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta, Canada, to evaluate several publicly available downscaled climate products. We consider daily, monthly, and annual records for a suite of temperature and humidity variables. The FCA data are ideal to evaluate climate downscaling because they contain multi-year observations and cover a range of topographic conditions, from flat prairie grass- and croplands to mountainous terrain. We find that the downscaling algorithms improve the accuracy of climate variables over simple interpolations of low-resolution data, but errors are often large at validation locations (e.g., several degrees C for temperature variables), and downscaled datasets show notable elevational and seasonal bias for all variables. A bias adjustment analysis demonstrates that such bias can be greatly reduced with relatively simple regression-based models, even when only a small subset of observational data are used, provided they cover a relatively large spread of elevations. We discuss our findings in the context of climate change and ecological modelling and make general recommendations for consumers of downscaled climate data products. |
英文关键词 | bias correction lapse rate mesonet Rocky Mountains topography validation |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000465863900016 |
WOS关键词 | CANADIAN ROCKY-MOUNTAINS ; SPATIAL SCALE ; PRECIPITATION ; TEMPERATURE ; CIRCULATION ; FOOTHILLS ; IMPACTS ; MESONET |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/182961 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Calgary, Arctic Inst North Amer, 2500,Earth Sci Bldg 1040,Univ Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; 2.Univ Calgary, Dept Geog, Calgary, AB, Canada |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roberts, David R.,Wood, Wendy H.,Marshall, Shawn J.. Assessments of downscaled climate data with a high-resolution weather station network reveal consistent but predictable bias[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY,2019,39(6):3091-3103. |
APA | Roberts, David R.,Wood, Wendy H.,&Marshall, Shawn J..(2019).Assessments of downscaled climate data with a high-resolution weather station network reveal consistent but predictable bias.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY,39(6),3091-3103. |
MLA | Roberts, David R.,et al."Assessments of downscaled climate data with a high-resolution weather station network reveal consistent but predictable bias".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY 39.6(2019):3091-3103. |
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