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DOI	10.5194/hess-24-3677-2020
	Assessment and projection of the water budget over western Canada using convection-permitting weather research and forecasting simulations
	Kurkute S.; Li Z.; Li Y.; Huo F.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1027-5606
起始页码	3677
结束页码	3697
卷号	24 期号:7
英文摘要	Water resources in cold regions in western Canada face severe risks posed by anthropogenic global warming as evapotranspiration increases and precipitation regimes shift. Although understanding the water cycle is key for addressing climate change issues, it is difficult to obtain high spatial-and temporal-resolution observations of hydroclimatic processes, especially in remote regions. Climate models are useful tools for dissecting and diagnosing these processes, especially the convection-permitting (CP) high-resolution regional climate simulation, which provides advantages over lower-resolution models by explicitly representing convection. In addition to better representing convective systems, higher spatial resolution also better represents topography, mountain meteorology, and highly heterogeneous geophysical features. However, there is little work with convection-permitting regional climate models conducted over western Canada. Focusing on the Mackenzie River and Saskatchewan River basins, this study investigated the surface water budget and atmospheric moisture balance in historical and representative concentration pathway (RCP8.5) projections using 4 km CP Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF). We compared the high-resolution 4 km CP WRF and three common reanalysis datasets, namely the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR), the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55), and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts reanalysis interim dataset (ERA-Interim). High-resolution WRF outperforms the reanalyses in balancing the surface water budget in both river basins with much lower residual terms. For the pseudo-global-warming scenario at the end of the 21st century with representative concentration pathway (RCP8.5) radiative forcing, both the Mackenzie River and Saskatchewan River basins show increases in the amplitude for precipitation and evapotranspiration and a decrease in runoff. The Saskatchewan River basin (SRB) shows a moderate increase in precipitation in the west and a small decrease in the east. Combined with a significant increase in evapotranspiration in a warmer climate, the Saskatchewan River basin would have a larger deficit of water resources than in the current climate based on the pseudo-global-warming (PGW) simulation. The high-resolution simulation also shows that the difference of atmospheric water vapour balance in the two river basins is due to flow orientation and topography differences at the western boundaries of the two basins. The sensitivity of water vapour balance to fine-scale topography and atmospheric processes shown in this study demonstrates that high-resolution dynamical downscaling is important for large-scale water balance and hydrological cycles. © 2020 Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Atmospheric movements; Atmospheric radiation; Budget control; Climate models; Evapotranspiration; Global warming; Moisture; Rivers; Topography; Water vapor; Watersheds; Anthropogenic global warming; European centre for medium-range weather forecasts; High resolution simulations; Mountain meteorologies; Regional climate models; Regional climate simulation; Spatial and temporal resolutions; Weather research and forecasting; Weather forecasting; assessment method; climate change; climate modeling; evapotranspiration; global warming; hydrometeorology; precipitation (climatology); runoff; simulation; water budget; weather forecasting; Canada; Mackenzie River [Northwest Territories]; Northwest Territories; Saskatchewan Basin
来源期刊	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/159342
作者单位	Kurkute, S., School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Li, Z., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Li, Y., School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Huo, F., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kurkute S.,Li Z.,Li Y.,et al. Assessment and projection of the water budget over western Canada using convection-permitting weather research and forecasting simulations[J],2020,24(7).
APA	Kurkute S.,Li Z.,Li Y.,&Huo F..(2020).Assessment and projection of the water budget over western Canada using convection-permitting weather research and forecasting simulations.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,24(7).
MLA	Kurkute S.,et al."Assessment and projection of the water budget over western Canada using convection-permitting weather research and forecasting simulations".Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24.7(2020).