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  Testing bias adjustment methods for regional climate change applications under observational uncertainty and resolution mismatch

Casanueva, A., Herrera, S., Iturbide, M., Lange, S., Jury, M., Dosio, A., Maraun, D., Gutiérrez, J. M. (2020): Testing bias adjustment methods for regional climate change applications under observational uncertainty and resolution mismatch. - Atmospheric Science Letters, 21, 7, e978.
https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.978

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Casanueva, Ana1, Author
Herrera, Sixto1, Author
Iturbide, Maialen1, Author
Lange, Stefan2, Author              
Jury, Martin1, Author
Dosio, Alessandro1, Author
Maraun, Douglas1, Author
Gutiérrez, José M.1, Author
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 Abstract: Systematic biases in climate models hamper their direct use in impact studies and, as a consequence, many statistical bias adjustment methods have been developed to calibrate model outputs against observations. The application of these methods in a climate change context is problematic since there is no clear understanding on how these methods may affect key magnitudes, for example, the climate change signal or trend, under different sources of uncertainty. Two relevant sources of uncertainty, often overlooked, are the sensitivity to the observational reference used to calibrate the method and the effect of the resolution mismatch between model and observations (downscaling effect). In the present work, we assess the impact of these factors on the climate change signal of temperature and precipitation considering marginal, temporal and extreme aspects. We use eight standard and state‐of‐the‐art bias adjustment methods (spanning a variety of methods regarding their nature—empirical or parametric—, fitted parameters and trend‐preservation) for a case study in the Iberian Peninsula. The quantile trend‐preserving methods (namely quantile delta mapping (QDM), scaled distribution mapping (SDM) and the method from the third phase of ISIMIP‐ISIMIP3) preserve better the raw signals for the different indices and variables considered (not all preserved by construction). However, they rely largely on the reference dataset used for calibration, thus presenting a larger sensitivity to the observations, especially for precipitation intensity, spells and extreme indices. Thus, high‐quality observational datasets are essential for comprehensive analyses in larger (continental) domains. Similar conclusions hold for experiments carried out at high (approximately 20 km) and low (approximately 120 km) spatial resolutions.

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 Dates: 2020-04-202020
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1002/asl.978
PIKDOMAIN: RD3 - Transformation Pathways
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Research topic keyword: Climate impacts
Research topic keyword: Extremes
Model / method: Machine Learning
Regional keyword: Europe
Organisational keyword: RD3 - Transformation Pathways
Working Group: Data-Centric Modeling of Cross-Sectoral Impacts
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 21 (7) Sequence Number: e978 Start / End Page: - Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/1501192
Publisher: Wiley