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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Xiang Gao, Shray Mathur
Summary: This study examines the predictability of extreme precipitation using analogue method and convolutional neural networks in the Pacific Coast California region and the midwestern United States. Large-scale meteorological patterns show useful predictability of extreme precipitation occurrence. Integrated vapor transport is found to have higher skills in prediction compared to other atmospheric variables in both regions.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Yeditha Pavan Kumar, Rathinasamy Maheswaran, Ankit Agarwal, Bellie Sivakumar
Summary: The study introduces wavelet-based neural network models for downscaling daily precipitation in the Krishna River basin in India. These models, incorporating various climatic variables, demonstrate strong performance in capturing regional precipitation patterns and extreme events compared to traditional and recent downscaling methods. The improvement in the wavelet-based models is attributed to their ability to uncover the hidden relationship between predictors and precipitation, enhancing overall model performance.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Wushan Ying, Huiping Yan, Jing-Jia Luo
Summary: This study evaluates the skill of the NUIST-CFS1.0 model in predicting summer precipitation over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The results show that the model can moderately predict the interannual variations of the rainbands and the links between precipitation and tropical sea surface temperature anomalies. However, there is large uncertainty in the forecasts and the magnitudes are underestimated. The downscaling experiments with the WRF model improve the predictions to some extent, but the skill is highly dependent on the global model forecast.
ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Dongwoo Jang
Summary: The study suggests that an ensemble of artificial neural network (ANN) and regional climate models (RCMs) can more accurately predict precipitation, especially inland. Using ANN improves prediction accuracy compared to individual RCMs, but requires a sufficient quantity of observed precipitation data.
ADVANCES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Parisa Hosseinzadehtalaei, Nabilla Khairunnisa Ishadi, Hossein Tabari, Patrick Willems
Summary: The study emphasizes the projected increase in flood frequency, volume, and inundated area due to climate change impacts. By applying a distribution-based bias correction method on regional climate model simulations, the study effectively reduces biases in the model outputs and provides strong scaling relations for high-resolution extreme precipitation time series.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Graham P. Taylor, Paul C. Loikith, Hugo Kyo Lee, Enjamin Lintner, Hristina M. Aragon
Summary: This study uses a novel method to analyze the projections of large-scale atmospheric circulation over the Pacific Northwest of North America and reduces the uncertainties of changes in circulation patterns under high emissions scenarios. The results show significant changes in the frequency, temperature, and precipitation of climate model projections for the region in the next few decades.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2023)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Ori Adam, Alexander Farnsworth, Daniel J. Lunt
Summary: The variation of the tropical rain belt is largely driven by equatorial precipitation inhibition. The tropical modality is a fundamental characteristic of tropical climate, which is associated with the width of the rain belt and the meridional overturning circulation. Low modality regions exhibit monsoonal seasonal variations, while high modality regions have three independent seasonal modes of variation.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2023)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Naomi Goldenson, L. Ruby Leung, Linda O. Mearns, David W. Pierce, Kevin A. Reed, Isla R. Simpson, Paul Ullrich, Will Krantz, Alex Hall, Andrew Jones, Stefan Rahimi
Summary: Dynamical downscaling is an important process that provides regional climate information by using global models to drive higher-resolution regional climate simulations. It is necessary to prioritize the selection of global climate models (GCMs) for downscaling studies due to limited computational resources. The selection should prioritize evaluating processes relevant to boundary conditions and regional uses. Metrics for representing relevant processes and procedures for selecting realizations from top-performing GCM simulations are needed. The weighting of metrics and prioritization of realizations may vary depending on user needs.
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Yeon-Woo Choi, Deborah J. Campbell, John C. Aldridge, Elfatih A. B. Eltahir
Summary: Bangladesh stands out as a climate change hotspot due to its unique geography, climate, high population density, and limited adaptation capacity. Using high-resolution regional climate model simulations, projections show that the country may face more frequent and severe heatwaves in the near future, with extreme wet-bulb temperatures in the western region likely to exceed danger thresholds.
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Ethan D. Gutmann, Joseph. J. Hamman, Martyn P. Clark, Trude Eidhammer, Andrew W. Wood, Jeffrey R. Arnold
Summary: Statistical processing of numerical model output has been widely used in weather forecasting and climate applications for decades. This study proposes a unified framework to evaluate the decisions made in the methods used to statistically postprocess output from weather and climate models. The Ensemble Generalized Analog Regression Downscaling (En-GARD) method is introduced, which allows users to select input variables, predictors, mathematical transformations, and combinations for downscaling approaches. The study applies En-GARD to regional climate model simulations to evaluate the impact of different downscaling method choices on current and future climate.
JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Annie L. Putman, Gabriel J. Bowen, Courtnay Strong
Summary: Stable isotope ratios of precipitation trace mechanisms of hydroclimatic change in the modern and paleoclimate record. Spatially organized regions of change suggest divergent controls, and we propose that changes in atmospheric water balance dominate trends in moisture-limited areas, whereas changes in upwind source region conditions drive trends where atmospheric water flux is large relative to precipitation.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Hongwen Zhang, Yanhong Gao
Summary: This study conducted a dynamical downscaling simulation to predict the convective and stratiform precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau under different scenarios from 2070 to 2099. The results showed that convective precipitation increased in the northern plateau while stratiform precipitation decreased in the southern plateau, leading to an opposite spatial pattern of total precipitation change. Compared to the coarse-resolution forcing, the model better reproduced the historical precipitation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shoshiro Minobe, Antonietta Capotondi, Michael G. Jacox, Masami Nonaka, Ryan R. Rykaczewski
Summary: This paper discusses the enhancement of marine ecosystem forecasts using physical ocean conditions predicted by global climate models. It reviews climate prediction projects and outlines new research opportunities for skillful marine biological forecasts. The bottleneck of limited availability of oceanic data hampers forecasting applications, and the authors recommend that climate prediction centers increase the range of ocean data available to the public. They highlight new research opportunities in both physical and biological forecasting and suggest establishing case studies to improve coordination. Advancing marine biological forecasting is crucial for the success of the UN Decade of Ocean Science.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Danilo Couto de Souza, Renato Ramos da Silva, Paula Gomes da Silva, Antonio Fernando Harter Fetter Filho, Fernando Javier Mendez, David Werth
Summary: A hybrid method combining principal component analysis and cluster analysis was used to generate high-resolution regional downscaling of atmospheric conditions to the southern coast of Brazil. The method successfully represented major atmospheric systems and provided detailed information for the coastal region. The advantage of this method lies in reducing computational costs while capturing the totality of observed atmospheric conditions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Christopher D. McCray, Julie M. Theriault, Dominique Paquin, Emilie Bresson
Summary: Understanding the impact of climate change on freezing rain events is crucial for stakeholders. This study compares the results of four algorithms applied to climate models and finds that the choice of algorithm can lead to differences in identifying precipitation type, highlighting the importance of accounting for algorithm selection uncertainty.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
S. Horning, L. Gross, A. Bardossy
JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS
(2020)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Nevil Quinn, Gunter Bleschl, Andras Bardossy, Attilio Castellarin, Martyn Clark, Christophe Cudennec, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, Upmanu Lall, Lubomir Lichner, Juraj Parajka, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Graham Sander, Hubert Savenije, Keith Smettem, Harry Vereecken, Alberto Viglione, Patrick Willems, Andy Wood, Ross Woods, Chong-Yu Xu, Erwin Zehe
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yingchun Huang, Andras Bardossy
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andras Bardossy, Faizan Anwar, Jochen Seidel
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ehsan Modiri, Andras Bardossy
Summary: This study used multivariate analysis to reveal the spatial and temporal correlations between different flood events in the Neckar catchment, identifying cluster characteristics of these events. Through cluster analysis, the Neckar catchment was divided into three major clusters, closely related to topography, geology, and human activities.
Article
Water Resources
Stephen Oppong Kwakye, Andras Bardossy
Summary: The study quantified the impact of climate change on the hydrology in West Africa, finding that while high flows may increase in the future due to increased rainfall events, the low flows during dry periods are expected to decrease, potentially leading to negative impacts on the sustainability of river flow in the region.
JOURNAL OF WATER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Omid Elmi, Mohammad J. Tourian, Andras Bardossy, Nico Sneeuw
Summary: The number of active gauges for discharge monitoring along rivers has decreased, leading to an investigation of spaceborne measurements as alternatives. A nonparametric model is proposed for estimating river discharge and its uncertainty from spaceborne river width measurements, providing meaningful uncertainty and allowing for the calibration of error bars in situ discharge measurements.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Water Resources
Maximilian Graf, Abbas El Hachem, Micha Eisele, Jochen Seidel, Christian Chwala, Harald Kunstmann, Andras Bardossy
Summary: The study focused on using opportunistic rainfall sensors in Germany, specifically in Rhineland-Palatinate and Reutlingen, to derive accurate rainfall maps through geostatistical interpolation. The results showed that datasets including information from opportunistic sensors performed the best, with interpolated rainfall maps matching reference rain gauges. While the daily country-wide scale showed good performance of the interpolated rainfall maps, the gauge-adjusted radar products were closer to the reference data.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yunping Li, Ke Zhang, Andras Bardossy, Xiaoji Shen, Yujia Cheng
Summary: This study evaluated the detectability of the IMERG dataset and identified precipitation errors based on multi-sensors using the 4CED method and error decomposition method. The results showed that the sample ratio for infrared (IR) sources was much higher than that for passive microwave (PMW) sources, and the high false ratio of the IR sensor led to poor detectability performance of the IMERG dataset.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andras Bardossy, Sebastian Horning
Summary: The spatial structures of natural variables are often complex and exhibit non-Gaussian spatial dependence. Existing approaches to consider non-Gaussian behavior are limited. This study presents a flexible method for defining non-Gaussian spatial dependence, based on continuous deformation of fields with different Gaussian spatial dependence. The methodology is illustrated with theoretical examples and demonstrated in a real-life example of groundwater quality parameters.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Andras Bardossy, Faizan Anwar
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of interpolating precipitation in space using various spatial gauge densities on the discharge of a rainfall-runoff model when all other input variables are constant. The study focuses on peak flows and compares a physically based model with a reconstructed spatially variable precipitation model and a conceptual model calibrated to match the reference model's output. The results show that all interpolation methods underestimated total precipitation volume and the underestimation was directly proportional to precipitation amount. The underestimation of peaks was severe for low observation densities and improved only with very high-density precipitation observation networks. The use of lumped inputs for the models also resulted in deteriorating performance for peak flows, even when using simulated precipitation.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Abbas El Hachem, Jochen Seidel, Florian Imbery, Thomas Junghaenel, Andras Bardossy
Summary: Information about precipitation extremes is crucial for hydrological planning and design, but observed extremes may be inaccurate or false due to errors. This investigation presents a quality control method for observed extremes using space-time statistical methods, including a Box-Cox transformation and spatial variogram. Detected outliers are compared with radar and discharge observations to remove implausible extremes.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Dhiraj Raj Gyawali, Andras Bardossy
Summary: This study aims to develop simple extended degree-day snow models using freely available snow-cover images. The results show that this approach is relatively simple and offers a plausible alternative to data-intensive models. The calibration using readily available MODIS images allows for a flexible regional calibration of snow-cover distribution, and the simulated snow-cover data exhibit good agreement with MODIS snow-cover distribution.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Jieru Yan, Fei Li, Andras Bardossy, Tao Tao
Summary: The accuracy of spatial precipitation estimates is crucial in various fields. Radar and rain gauge data need to be combined for accurate estimates, with conditional simulation holding potential but requiring accurate marginal distribution function of rainfall fields. The proposed method in this study utilizes random mixing to simulate rainfall fields with comprehensive accuracy verification.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Andras Bardossy, Jochen Seidel, Abbas El Hachem
Summary: The study investigates the applicability of personal weather station data for spatial precipitation interpolation using indicator correlations and rank statistics. By selecting stations based on high precipitation indicators and examining their spatial pattern, the study achieves accurate interpolation of precipitation amounts.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2021)