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DOI	10.5194/hess-22-2163-2018b
	Are we using the right fuel to drive hydrological models? A climate impact study in the Upper Blue Nile
	Liersch S.; Tecklenburg J.; Rust H.; Dobler A.; Fischer M.; Kruschke T.; Koch H.; Hattermann F.F.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	1027-5606
起始页码	2163
结束页码	2185
卷号	22 期号:4
英文摘要	Climate simulations are the fuel to drive hydrological models that are used to assess the impacts of climate change and variability on hydrological parameters, such as river discharges, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration. Unlike with cars, where we know which fuel the engine requires, we never know in advance what unexpected side effects might be caused by the fuel we feed our models with. Sometimes we increase the fuel's octane number (bias correction) to achieve better performance and find out that the model behaves differently but not always as was expected or desired. This study investigates the impacts of projected climate change on the hydrology of the Upper Blue Nile catchment using two model ensembles consisting of five global CMIP5 Earth system models and 10 regional climate models (CORDEX Africa). WATCH forcing data were used to calibrate an eco-hydrological model and to bias-correct both model ensembles using slightly differing approaches. On the one hand it was found that the bias correction methods considerably improved the performance of average rainfall characteristics in the reference period (1970-1999) in most of the cases. This also holds true for non-extreme discharge conditions between Q20 and Q80. On the other hand, bias-corrected simulations tend to overemphasize magnitudes of projected change signals and extremes. A general weakness of both uncorrected and bias-corrected simulations is the rather poor representation of high and low flows and their extremes, which were often deteriorated by bias correction. This inaccuracy is a crucial deficiency for regional impact studies dealing with water management issues and it is therefore important to analyse model performance and characteristics and the effect of bias correction, and eventually to exclude some climate models from the ensemble. However, the multi-model means of all ensembles project increasing average annual discharges in the Upper Blue Nile catchment and a shift in seasonal patterns, with decreasing discharges in June and July and increasing discharges from August to November. © Author(s) 2018.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Catchments; Climate change; Digital storage; Earth (planet); Fuels; Runoff; Soil moisture; Water management; Bias-correction methods; Climate simulation; Eco-hydrological models; Extreme discharges; Hydrological models; Hydrological parameters; Rainfall characteristics; Regional climate models; Climate models; climate change; climate modeling; ecohydrology; evapotranspiration; hydrological modeling; performance assessment; regional climate; river discharge; seasonal variation; Blue Nile [Nile River]; Nile 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/160061
作者单位	Liersch, S., Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegraphenberg A31, Potsdam, 14473, Germany; Tecklenburg, J., Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegraphenberg A31, Potsdam, 14473, Germany; Rust, H., Free University of Berlin (FUB), Institute of Meteorology, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, Berlin, 12165, Germany; Dobler, A., Free University of Berlin (FUB), Institute of Meteorology, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, Berlin, 12165, Germany; Fischer, M., Free University of Berlin (FUB), Institute of Meteorology, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, Berlin, 12165, Germany; Kruschke, T., GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Wischhofstr. 1-3, Kiel, 24148, Germany; Koch, H., Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegraphenberg A31, Potsdam, 14473, Germany; Hattermann, F.F., Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegraphenberg A31, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liersch S.,Tecklenburg J.,Rust H.,et al. Are we using the right fuel to drive hydrological models? A climate impact study in the Upper Blue Nile[J],2018,22(4).
APA	Liersch S..,Tecklenburg J..,Rust H..,Dobler A..,Fischer M..,...&Hattermann F.F..(2018).Are we using the right fuel to drive hydrological models? A climate impact study in the Upper Blue Nile.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,22(4).
MLA	Liersch S.,et al."Are we using the right fuel to drive hydrological models? A climate impact study in the Upper Blue Nile".Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 22.4(2018).