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DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02840-0
	How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change
	Krysanova V.; Zaherpour J.; Didovets I.; Gosling S.N.; Gerten D.; Hanasaki N.; Müller Schmied H.; Pokhrel Y.; Satoh Y.; Tang Q.; Wada Y.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
英文摘要	Importance of evaluation of global hydrological models (gHMs) before doing climate impact assessment was underlined in several studies. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of six gHMs in simulating observed discharge for a set of 57 large catchments applying common metrics with thresholds for the monthly and seasonal dynamics and summarize them estimating an aggregated index of model performance for each model in each basin. One model showed a good performance, and other five showed a weak or poor performance in most of the basins. In 15 catchments, evaluation results of all models were poor. The model evaluation was supplemented by climate impact assessment for a subset of 12 representative catchments using (1) usual ensemble mean approach and (2) weighted mean approach based on model performance, and the outcomes were compared. The comparison of impacts in terms of mean monthly and mean annual discharges using two approaches has shown that in four basins, differences were negligible or small, and in eight catchments, differences in mean monthly, mean annual discharge or both were moderate to large. The spreads were notably decreased in most cases when the second method was applied. It can be concluded that for improving credibility of projections, the model evaluation and application of the weighted mean approach could be recommended, especially if the mean monthly (seasonal) impacts are of interest, whereas the ensemble mean approach could be applied for projecting the mean annual changes. The calibration of gHMs could improve their performance and, consequently, the credibility of projections. © 2020, The Author(s).
英文关键词	Climate change; Credibility of projections; Global hydrological models; Model evaluation; Model performance; Model weighting; River discharge projections
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Catchments; Climate change; Runoff; Climate impact assessment; Evaluation results; Hydrological models; Model evaluation; Model performance; Poor performance; River discharge; Seasonal dynamics; Climate models
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147289
作者单位	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany; Nottingham, United Kingdom; School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Geography Dept., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan; Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States; National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Krysanova V.,Zaherpour J.,Didovets I.,et al. How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change[J],2020.
APA	Krysanova V..,Zaherpour J..,Didovets I..,Gosling S.N..,Gerten D..,...&Wada Y..(2020).How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change.Climatic Change.
MLA	Krysanova V.,et al."How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change".Climatic Change (2020).