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DOI	10.5194/hess-23-4635-2019
	High-resolution regional climate modeling and projection over western Canada using a weather research forecasting model with a pseudo-global warming approach
	Li Y.; Li Z.; Zhang Z.; Chen L.; Kurkute S.; Scaff L.; Pan X.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1027-5606
起始页码	4635
结束页码	4659
卷号	23 期号:11
英文摘要	Climate change poses great risks to western Canada's ecosystem and socioeconomical development. To assess these hydroclimatic risks under high-end emission scenario RCP8.5, this study used the Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model at a convection-permitting (CP) 4 km resolution to dynamically downscale the mean projection of a 19-member CMIP5 ensemble by the end of the 21st century. The CP simulations include a retrospective simulation (CTL, 2000-2015) for verification forced by ERA-Interim and a pseudo-global warming (PGW) for climate change projection forced with climate change forcing (2071-2100 to 1976-2005) from CMIP5 ensemble added on ERA-Interim. The retrospective WRF-CTL's surface air temperature simulation was evaluated against Canadian daily analysis ANUSPLIN, showing good agreements in the geographical distribution with cold biases east of the Canadian Rockies, especially in spring. WRF-CTL captures the main pattern of observed precipitation distribution from CaPA and ANUSPLIN but shows a wet bias near the British Columbia coast in winter and over the immediate region on the lee side of the Canadian Rockies. The WRF-PGW simulation shows significant warming relative to CTL, especially over the polar region in the northeast during the cold season, and in daily minimum temperature. Precipitation changes in PGW over CTL vary with the seasons: in spring and late autumn precipitation increases in most areas, whereas in summer in the Saskatchewan River basin and southern Canadian Prairies, the precipitation change is negligible or decreased slightly. With almost no increase in precipitation and much more evapotranspiration in the future, the water availability during the growing season will be challenging for the Canadian Prairies. The WRF-PGW projected warming is less than that by the CMIP5 ensemble in all seasons. The CMIP5 ensemble projects a 10 %-20 % decrease in summer precipitation over the Canadian Prairies and generally agrees with WRF-PGW except for regions with significant terrain. This difference may be due to the much higher resolution of WRF being able to more faithfully represent small-scale summer convection and orographic lifting due to steep terrain. WRF-PGW shows an increase in high-intensity precipitation events and shifts the distribution of precipitation events toward more extremely intensive events in all seasons. Due to this shift in precipitation intensity to the higher end in the PGW simulation, the seemingly moderate increase in the total amount of precipitation in summer east of the Canadian Rockies may underestimate the increase in flooding risk and water shortage for agriculture. The change in the probability distribution of precipitation intensity also calls for innovative bias-correction methods to be developed for the application of the dataset when bias correction is required. High-quality meteorological observation over the region is needed for both forcing high-resolution climate simulation and conducting verification. The high-resolution downscaled climate simulations provide abundant opportunities both for investigating local-scale atmospheric dynamics and for studying climate impacts on hydrology, agriculture, and ecosystems. © 2019 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agriculture; Ecosystems; Floods; Geographical distribution; Global warming; Probability distributions; Risk assessment; Risk perception; Water supply; Weather forecasting; Bias-correction methods; Climate change projections; Meteorological observation; Precipitation change; Precipitation distribution; Precipitation intensity; Regional climate modeling; Surface air temperatures; Climate models; air temperature; atmospheric dynamics; climate change; climate modeling; CMIP; evapotranspiration; flooding; geographical distribution; global warming; growing season; precipitation intensity; regional climate; seasonal variation; weather forecasting; British Columbia; Canada; Prairie Provinces; Rocky Mountains; Saskatchewan River
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/159567
作者单位	Li, Y., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Li, Z., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Zhang, Z., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Chen, L., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, CAS Key Laboratory of Regional Climate Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China; Kurkute, S., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Scaff, L., Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK,...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li Y.,Li Z.,Zhang Z.,et al. High-resolution regional climate modeling and projection over western Canada using a weather research forecasting model with a pseudo-global warming approach[J],2019,23(11).
APA	Li Y..,Li Z..,Zhang Z..,Chen L..,Kurkute S..,...&Pan X..(2019).High-resolution regional climate modeling and projection over western Canada using a weather research forecasting model with a pseudo-global warming approach.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,23(11).
MLA	Li Y.,et al."High-resolution regional climate modeling and projection over western Canada using a weather research forecasting model with a pseudo-global warming approach".Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 23.11(2019).