Estimation of Joint Uncertainties Due to Natural Climate Variability and Emission Scenarios in Climate Change Assessment on Precipitation and Temperature in Zanjan
Subject Areas :
Environmental Risk Analysis
Mohammad Reza Khazaei
1
,
Motalleb Byzedi
2
,
Iman Babaeian
3
1 - Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Payame Noor University, I.R of IRAN
2 - Department of Water Engineering, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.
3 - Climatological Research Institute, Mashhad, Iran.
Received: 2015-08-29
Accepted : 2016-03-12
Published : 2019-12-22
Keywords:
stochastic,
Climate Change,
natural climate variability,
Uncertainty,
LARS-WG,
Abstract :
Background and Objective: In this paper climate change impacts on daily precipitation, daily maximum, and daily minimum temperature are estimated, while joint uncertainties due to natural climate variability and emission scenarios are estimated. By considering these uncertainties, the results incorporate a wide range of future possible situations which is a great importance in increasing the reliability of the results.
Method: For downscaling of future GCM scenarios, Weather Generator method is used using LARS-WG model. CGCM3 outputs for based on three emissions scenarios, medium (A1B) and high (A2), low (B1), are downscaled for Zanjan. Uncertainty due to natural climate variability is estimated by comparison of 90% limits of 100 LARS-WG generated series for historic and for each future climate scenarios.
Findings: The results of this research show that the daily minimum and maximum temperature will increase in the future. Despite the Uncertainty due to natural climate variability, if is expected that the monthly means of daily minimum and maximum temperature will increase for the entire calendar months. Moreover, the uncertainty of emission scenarios is low in comparison with the future increase in temperature. It is expected that the average of monthly precipitation will decrease for the most of the calendar months; although, there is a little possibility for increase in precipitation due to natural climate variability.
Discussion and Conclusion: In result of climate change, temperature and precipitation of the Zanjan will change in the future and uncertainties due to natural climate variability and emission scenarios are important in climate change impact assessment on precipitation and temperature.
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Babaeian, E., Nagafineik, Z., Zabolabasi, F., Habeibei, M., Adab, H., malbisei, S., 2010. Climate Change Assessment over Iran During 2010-2039 by Using Statistical Downscaling of ECHO- G Model, Geography and Development Iranian Journal, 16:135-152. (In Persian)
Ghorbanizadeh Karazi, H., Chelehmal Dezfoulnezhad, M., 2010. Study on the effect of climate change on snowmelt runoff timing in Dez basin. Journal of Wetland Ecobiology, 2: 56-66. (In Persian)
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Heidari, A.R., Assessment of various climate change scenarios on multi objective reservoirs operation (Case study: Ami Kabir Dam), Master science thesis, Tarbiat Modares University, School of Civil Engineering, 2011, 125 pages. (In Persian)
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Reaney, S. M.; Fowler, H. J., 2008. Uncertainty estimation of climate change impacts on river flow incorporating stochastic downscaling and hydrological model parameterisation error sources, BHS 10th National Hydrology Symposium, Exeter.
Minville M, Brissette F, Leconte R., 2008. Uncertainty of the impact of climate change on the hydrology of a nordic watershed, Journal of Hydrology 358:70-83.
Khazaei M.R., Ahmadi S., Saghafian B., Zahabiyoun B., 2013. A new daily weather generator to preserve extremes and low-frequency variability, Climatic Change: 119:631–645.
Prudhomme, C., Jakob, D. & Svensson, C., 2003. Uncertainty and climate change impact on the flood regime of small UK catchments, Journal of Hydrology, 277, 1-23.
Wilby RL, Christian WD., 2007. SDSM 4.1- a decision support tool for the assessment of regional climate change impacts, User Manual. http://co-public.lboro.ac.uk/cocwd/SDSM/SDSMManual.pdf
Prudhomme, C., Reynard, N. & Crooks, S., 2002. Downscaling of global climate models for flood frequency analysis: where are we now?, Hydrological Processes, 16, 1137-1150.
Fowler HJ, Blenkinsop S, Tebaldi C. 2007. Linking climate change modelling to impacts studies: recent advances in downscaling techniques for hydrological modeling, International Journal of Climatology 27:1547-1578.
Wilby, R.L., Dawson, C.W. & Barrow, E.M., 2002. SDSM - a decision support tool for the assessment of regional climate change impacts, Environmental Modelling & Software, 17, 147-159.
Semenov, M.A., and Brooks, R.J., 1998. Comparison of the WGEN and LARSWGstochastic weather generators for diverse climates, Climate Research,10: 95-107.
Utset, A., Martinez-cob, A., Farre, I. & Cavero, J., 2006. Simulating the effects of extreme dry and wet years on the water use of flooding-irrigated maize in a Mediterranean landplane, Agricultural Water Management, 85, 77-84.
Dibike, Y. B. & Coulibaly, P., 2005. Hydrologic impact of climate change in the Saguenay watershed: comparison of downscaling methods and hydrologic models, Journal of Hydrology, 307, 145-163.
Mavromatis, T. & Hansen, J.W., 2001. Interannual variability characteristics and simulated crop response of four stochastic weather generators, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 109, 283-296.
Khan, M. S., Coulibaly, P. & Dibike, Y., 2006. Uncertainty analysis of statistical downscaling methods. Journal of Hydrology, 319, 357-382.
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Holman, I.P., Tascone, D. & Hess, T.M., 2009. A comparison of stochastic and deterministic downscaling methods for modelling potential groundwater recharge under climate change in East Anglia, UK: implications for groundwater resource management, Hydrogeology Journal, 17, 1629-1641.
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Hansen, J.W., Mavromatis, T., 2001. Correcting low-frequency variability bias in stochastic weather generators, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 109:297-310.
