Seasonal and Extraseasonal Predictions of Summer Monsoon Precipitation by Gcms

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Recent Advances in Dynamical Extra-Seasonal to Annual Climate Prediction at IAP／CAS

Recent advances in dynamical climate prediction at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS) during the last five years have been briefly described in this paper. Firstly,the second generation of the IAP dynamical climate prediction system (IAP DCP-II) has been described,and two sets of hindcast experiments of the summer rainfall anomalies over China for the periods of 1980-1994 with different versions of the IAP AGCM have been conducted. The comparison results show that the predictive skill of summer rainfall anomalies over China is improved with the improved IAP AGCM in which the surface albedo parameterization is modified. Furthermore, IAP DCP-II has been applied to the real-time prediction of summer rainfall anomalies over China since 1998, and the verification results show that IAP DCP-II can quite well capture the large scale patterns of the summer flood/drought situations over China during the last five years (1998-2002). Meanwhile, an investigation has demonstrated the importance of the atmospheric initial conditions on the seasonal climate prediction, along with studies on the influences from surface boundary conditions (e.g., land surface characteristics, sea surface temperature).Certain conclusions have been reached, such as, the initial atmospheric anomalies in spring may play an important role in the summer climate anomalies, and soil moisture anomalies in spring can also have a significant impact on the summer climate anomalies over East Asia. Finally, several practical techniques(e.g., ensemble technique, correction method, etc.), which lead to the increase of the prediction skill for summer rainfall anomalies over China, have also been illustrated. The paper concludes with a list of criticalre quirements needed for the further improvement of dynamical seasonal climate prediction.     

IAP短期气候距平预测系统的定量评估及订正技术的改进研究

采用一套多指标的评估方法, 对中国科学院大气物理所研制的短期气候距平数值预测系统（ＩＡＰＰＳＳＣＡ） 方案１ 的预测性能进行了定量的、系统的评估。评估表明： ＩＡＰＰＳＳＣＡ 对中国汛期大尺度的、重大的降水异常预报较好; 在不同区域,ＩＡＰＰＳＳＣＡ 的预测能力不同, 对中国东南区域显示出较高的预报准确度和可信度; 与单个预报相比, 集合预测水平稳定, 能提高总体预测水平。另外, 还对订正技术进行了改进研究, 距平百分率订正较距平订正效果为佳。     

利用大气环流模式模拟北大西洋海温异常强迫响应

北大西洋地区的海温异常能够在多大程度上对大气产生影响,一直是一个有争议的问题。作者利用伴随北大西洋涛动出现的海温异常对大气环流模式CAM2.0.1进行强迫,考察了模式在冬季（12月、1月和2月）对三核型海温异常的响应。通过与欧洲中期天气预报中心提供的再分析资料的对比,发现该模式可以通过海温强迫在一定程度上再现具有北大西洋涛动特征的温度场和环流场。在北大西洋及其沿岸地区,模式模拟出了三核型的准正压响应,与经典的北大西洋涛动型大气异常是一致的。模式结果与北大西洋地区大气内部主导模态的差别主要体现在两个方面:一是异常中心位置多偏向于大洋上空,在陆地上的异常响应强度很弱;二是高纬地区对海温异常的响应不显著,没有强迫出与实际的大气模态相对应的异常中心,表明该地区海洋的反馈作用较弱。     

Assessing the Impacts of Eurasian Snow Conditions on Climate Predictability with a Global Climate Model

On the basis of two ensemble experiments conducted by a general atmospheric circulation model (Institute of Atmospheric Physics nine-level atmospheric general circulation model coupled with land surface model, hereinafter referred to as IAP9L_CoLM), the impacts of realistic Eurasian snow conditions on summer climate predictability were investigated. The predictive skill of sea level pressures (SLP) and middle and upper tropospheric geopotential heights at mid-high latitudes of Eurasia was enhanced when improved Eurasian snow conditions were introduced into the model. Furthermore, the model skill in reproducing the interannual variation and spatial distribution of the surface air temperature (SAT) anomalies over China was improved by applying realistic (prescribed) Eurasian snow conditions. The predictive skill of the summer precipitation in China was low; however, when realistic snow conditions were employed, the predictability increased, illustrating the effectiveness of the application of realistic Eurasian snow conditions. Overall, the results of the present study suggested that Eurasian snow conditions have a significant effect on dynamical seasonal prediction in China. When Eurasian snow conditions in the global climate model (GCM) can be more realistically represented, the predictability of summer climate over China increases.     

Assessment of a stochastic downscaling methodology in generating an ensemble of hourly future climate time series

This study extends a stochastic downscaling methodology to generation of an ensemble of hourly time series of meteorological variables that express possible future climate conditions at a point-scale. The stochastic downscaling uses general circulation model (GCM) realizations and an hourly weather generator, the Advanced WEather GENerator (AWE-GEN). Marginal distributions of factors of change are computed for several climate statistics using a Bayesian methodology that can weight GCM realizations based on the model relative performance with respect to a historical climate and a degree of disagreement in projecting future conditions. A Monte Carlo technique is used to sample the factors of change from their respective marginal distributions. As a comparison with traditional approaches, factors of change are also estimated by averaging GCM realizations. With either approach, the derived factors of change are applied to the climate statistics inferred from historical observations to re-evaluate parameters of the weather generator. The re-parameterized generator yields hourly time series of meteorological variables that can be considered to be representative of future climate conditions. In this study, the time series are generated in an ensemble mode to fully reflect the uncertainty of GCM projections, climate stochasticity, as well as uncertainties of the downscaling procedure. Applications of the methodology in reproducing future climate conditions for the periods of 2000–2009, 2046–2065 and 2081–2100, using the period of 1962–1992 as the historical baseline are discussed for the location of Firenze (Italy). The inferences of the methodology for the period of 2000–2009 are tested against observations to assess reliability of the stochastic downscaling procedure in reproducing statistics of meteorological variables at different time scales.     

气候预测中的集合方法初探

介绍了气候预测中的集合方法。该文作者曾在1996年论证了在西太平洋暖池区海温异常与东亚夏季风的共同作用下存在一个可预测的气候异常区,部分地改变了气候不可预测的论断。如何从与大量不可预测结果混杂在一起的结果中提炼出可预测部分是集合方法的重要目的之一。文中也讨论了由于大气运动固有的动力学特性,其集合预测与经典的数学考虑有所区别,天气与气候预测有不同的特点,其集合方法、目的也应有所不同,由此对集合方法提出了一些新的建议。文中同时介绍了首次在气候预测中发现的多平衡态现象,建议了如何判定多平衡的出现,以及如何利用多平衡态来改善对不同区域的预测。     

An analogue model to derive additional climate change scenarios from existing GCM simulations

 Changes in land surface driving variables, predicted by GCM transient climate change experiments, are confirmed to exhibit linearity in the global mean land temperature anomaly, ΔT _l . The associated constants of proportionality retain spatial and seasonal characteristics of the GCM output, whilst ΔT _l is related to radiative forcing anomalies. The resultant analogue model is shown to be robust between GCM runs and as such provides a computationally efficient technique of extending existing GCM experiments to a large range of climate change scenarios. As an example impacts study, the analogue model is used to drive a terrestrial ecosystem model, and predicted changes in terrestrial carbon are found to be similar to those when using GCM anomalies directly. Received: 4 January 1999 / Accepted: 11 December 1999     

Predictability of large interannual Arctic sea-ice anomalies

In projections of twenty-first century climate, Arctic sea ice declines and at the same time exhibits strong interannual anomalies. Here, we investigate the potential to predict these strong sea-ice anomalies under a perfect-model assumption, using the Max-Planck-Institute Earth System Model in the same setup as in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). We study two cases of strong negative sea-ice anomalies: a 5-year-long anomaly for present-day conditions, and a 10-year-long anomaly for conditions projected for the middle of the twenty-first century. We treat these anomalies in the CMIP5 projections as the truth, and use exactly the same model configuration for predictions of this synthetic truth. We start ensemble predictions at different times during the anomalies, considering lagged-perfect and sea-ice-assimilated initial conditions. We find that the onset and amplitude of the interannual anomalies are not predictable. However, the further deepening of the anomaly can be predicted for typically 1 year lead time if predictions start after the onset but before the maximal amplitude of the anomaly. The magnitude of an extremely low summer sea-ice minimum is hard to predict: the skill of the prediction ensemble is not better than a damped-persistence forecast for lead times of more than a few months, and is not better than a climatology forecast for lead times of two or more years. Predictions of the present-day anomaly are more skillful than predictions of the mid-century anomaly. Predictions using sea-ice-assimilated initial conditions are competitive with those using lagged-perfect initial conditions for lead times of a year or less, but yield degraded skill for longer lead times. The results presented here suggest that there is limited prospect of predicting the large interannual sea-ice anomalies expected to occur throughout the twenty-first century.     

南京信息工程大学气候预测系统1.0版简介

南京信息工程大学气候预测系统1.0版(NUIST CFS1.0)是基于日本海洋科学技术开发机构(JAMSTEC)的SINTEX-F模式发展而来,可以实现对全球气候异常的季节-年际预测。对过去近40 a的集合历史回报预测试验结果的评估发现,该预测系统对热带太平洋和印度洋海温异常具有良好的预测技巧,并且该系统能提前1.5~2 a对ENSO(Nino3.4指数)做出有技巧的预测(即相关系数达0.5),同时也可以提前1~2个季节对印度洋偶极子(IOD)做出有较高技巧的预测,展现了对主要热带气候信号的良好预测技巧。但是与国内外所有动力模式预测系统类似,该系统对东亚地区的气候异常预测还存在较大的不足。考虑到ENSO对东亚地区气候异常的强烈影响,本文尝试去除与ENSO预测相关的系统偏差来初步订正东亚地区夏季温度异常和降水距平百分率的预测结果。对比订正前后的结果表明,这一简单的订正方法有助于提高我国气候异常的预测准确率。同时选取2019年夏季气温异常和降水距平百分率的实时预测结果作为个例进行分析,发现订正能够提供一定的技巧改善,但与观测结果相比仍存在较大偏差,需要在今后的工作中不断改进完善。此外,本文也初步评估了NUIST CFS1.0对我国冬春季的气候预测技巧,并提供了经简单订正后的2019/2020年冬季和2020年春季的实时预测结果。     

Seasonal prediction of African precipitation with ECHAM4–T42 ensemble simulations using a multivariate MOS re-calibration scheme

A 15 member ensemble of 20th century simulations using the ECHAM4–T42 atmospheric GCM is utilized to investigate the potential predictability of interannual variations of seasonal rainfall over Africa. Common boundary conditions are the global sea surface temperatures (SST) and sea ice extent. A canonical correlation analysis (CCA) between observed and ensemble mean ECHAM4 precipitation over Africa is applied in order to identify the most predictable anomaly patterns of precipitation and the related SST anomalies. The CCA is then used to formulate a re-calibration approach similar to model output statistics (MOS) and to derive precipitation forecasts over Africa. Predictand is the climate research unit (CRU) gridded precipitation over Africa. As predictor we use observed SST anomalies, ensemble mean precipitation over Africa and a combined vector of mean sea level pressure, streamfunction and velocity potential at 850 hPa. The different forecast approaches are compared. Most skill for African precipitation forecasts is provided by tropical Atlantic (Gulf of Guinea) SST anomalies which mainly affect rainfall over the Guinean coast and Sahel. The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences southern and East Africa, however with a lower skill. Indian Ocean SST anomalies, partly independent from ENSO, have an impact particularly on East Africa. As suggested by the large agreement between the simulated and observed precipitation, the ECHAM4 rainfall provides a skillful predictor for CRU precipitation over Africa. However, MOS re-calibration is needed in order to provide skillful forecasts. Forecasts using MOS re-calibrated model precipitation are at least as skillful as forecast using dynamical variables from the model or instantaneous SST. In many cases, MOS re-calibrated precipitation forecasts provide more skill. However, differences are not systematic for all regions and seasons, and often small.     

基于多种集合的中国冬季气温逐月滚动预测

利用1979—2015年中国国家气候中心整编的160站月平均气温和NCEP/NCAR全球大气再分析资料,从1979/1980—2008/2009年冬季前期500 h Pa高度场、200 h Pa势函数和850 h Pa势函数场选择预测因子,考虑不同时效因子的组合及其独立性,综合应用多因子回归集合、交叉检验集合、逐月滚动集合,建立了针对中国冬季气温的逐月滚动预测模型,并利用该模型对2010/2011—2014/2015年冬季气温进行了独立预测试验和检验。结果表明,综合运用多种集合可提高短期气候客观定量预测的可行性和稳定性。多因子回归集合能增加可预测站点数,交叉检验集合可减少因统计关系不稳定而产生的对预报效果的影响,逐月滚动集合的应用不仅增加了可预测站点数,而且使预测效果更加稳定。本文建立的预测模型可对中国冬季气温进行长时效的预测,且有一定的预报技巧,对实际的季节预测业务有重要应用价值。     

IAP／CAS的短期气候距平数值预测研究

本文介绍了中国科学院在气物理研究所（ＩＡＰ／ＣＡＳ）近十年来在短期气候距平数值预测研究方面的一些进展情况,首先介绍了近十年来准业务跨季度汛期降水预测的结果及评分,对预测的物理基础、预测可能性、集合预测方法、订正的必要性与方案进行了初步探讨,提出了我们的看法,发现预测中可能出现多平衡态,可以应用来改进不同区域的预测,并对些方法所作预测的特点、与经验半经验统计的相互配合、不同地区预测效果的差异、如何选     

集合样本数影响月平均500 hPa高度场预测技巧分析

气候系统模式输出结果是当前开展气候预测业务的重要参考依据之一,如何提高气候系统模式输出结果的可信度是改进气候业务预测能力的关键之一。利用1999—2010年NCEP CFSv2模式每日四次预测未来45天的回算数据,分析了集合样本数对模式预测能力的影响。分析结果表明,模式对月平均500 hPa位势高度的预测技巧在热带地区较高,而中高纬度地区较低;模式对500 hPa位势高度时间异常的预测能力优于空间异常。无论是空间异常还是时间异常,随着模式超前时间的增加,预测技巧均逐渐降低,但是在不同区域和不同月份,模式预测技巧随超前时间的变化存在差异。此外,模式预测技巧存在非常大的年际变率。增加集合样本数,对不同月份和不同起报时间预测技巧的稳定度和预测技巧值均有明显正效果,特别是对亚洲中纬度地区改善度较大。增加集合样本数也可以在一定程度上降低模式预测技巧年际变率。集合样本数增加对于500 hPa位势高度空间异常的改进优于时间异常。      

The sensitivity of the meridional overturning circulation to modelling uncertainty in a perturbed physics ensemble without flux adjustment

Ocean dynamics play a key role in the climate system, by redistributing heat and freshwater. The uncertainty of how these processes are represented in climate models, and how this uncertainty affects future climate projections can be investigated using perturbed physics ensembles of global circulation models (GCMs). Techniques such as flux adjustments should be avoided since they can impact the sensitivity of the ensemble to the imposed forcing. In this study a method for developing an coupled ensemble with a GCM that does not use flux adjustment is presented. The ensemble is constrained by using information from a prior ensemble with a mixed layer ocean coupled to an atmosphere GCM, to reduce drifts in the coupled ensemble. Constraints on parameter perturbations are derived by using observational constraints on surface temperature, and top of the atmosphere radiative fluxes. As an example of such an ensemble developed with this methodology, uncertainty in response of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) to increased CO₂ concentrations is investigated. The ensemble mean MOC strength is 17.1?Sv and decreases by 2.1?Sv when greenhouse gas concentrations are doubled. No rapid changes or shutdown of the MOC are seen in any of the ensemble members. There is a strong negative relationship between global mean temperature and MOC strength across the ensemble which is not seen in a multimodel ensemble. A positive relationship between climate sensitivity and the decrease of MOC strength is also seen.     

Assessing the Impacts of Initial Snow Conditions over the Tibetan Plateau on China Precipitation Prediction Using a Global Climate Model

Two ensemble experiments were conducted using a general atmospheric circulation model. These experiments were used to investigate the impacts of initial snow anomalies over the Tibetan Plateau（TP） on China precipitation prediction. In one of the experiments, the initial snow conditions over the TP were climatological values; while in the other experiment, the initial snow anomalies were snow depth estimates derived from the passive microwave remote-sensing data. In the current study, the difference between these two experiments was assessed to evaluate the impact of initial snow anomalies over the TP on simulated precipitation. The results indicated that the model simulation for precipitation over eastern China had certain improvements while applying a more realistic initial snow anomaly, especially for spring precipitation over Northeast China and North China and for summer precipitation over North China and Southeast China. The results suggest that seasonal prediction could be enhanced by using more realistic initial snow conditions over TP, and microwave remote-sensing snow data could be used to initialize climate models and improve the simulation of eastern China precipitation during spring and summer. Further analyses showed that higher snow anomalies over TP cooled the surface, resulting in lower near- surface air temperature over the TP in spring and summer. The surface cooling over TP weakened the Asian summer monsoon and brought more precipitation in South China in spring and more precipitation to Southeast China during summer.     

Assessing the Seasonal Predictability of Summer Precipitation over the Huaihe River Basin with Multiple APCC Models

Seasonal rainfall predictability over the Huaihe River basin is evaluated in this paper on the basis of 23-year(1981-2003) retrospective forecasts by 10 climate models from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) Climate Center(APCC) multi-model ensemble(MME) prediction system.It is found that the summer rainfall variance in this basin is largely internal,which leads to lower rainfall predictability for most individual climate models.By dividing the 10 models into three categories according to their sea surface temperature(SST) boundary conditions including observed,predicted,and persistent SSTs,the MME deterministic predictive skill of summer rainfall over Huaihe River basin is investigated.It is shown that the MME is effective for increasing the current seasonal forecast skill.Further analysis shows that the MME averaged over predicted SST models has the highest rainfall prediction skill,which is closely related to model’s capability in reproducing the observed dominant modes of the summer rainfall anomalies in Huaihe River basin.This result can be further ascribed to the fact that the predicted SST MME is the most effective model ensemble for capturing the relationship between the summer rainfall anomalies over Huaihe River basin and the SST anomalies(SSTAs) in equatorial oceans.     

中国业务动力季节预报的进展

利用动力模式开展季节到年际的短期气候预测 ,是目前国际上气候预测的发展方向。自 1996年以来 ,经过 8a多的研制和发展 ,国家气候中心已建立起第 1代动力气候模式预测业务系统 ,其中包括 1个全球大气 海洋耦合模式 (CGCM )、1个高分辨率东亚区域气候模式 (RegCM_NCC)和 5个简化的ENSO预测模式 (SAOMS) ,可用于季节—年际时间尺度的全球气候预测 ;全球海气耦合模式与区域气候模式嵌套 ,可以提供高分辨率的东亚区域气候模式制做季节预测。CGCM对 1982～ 2 0 0 0年夏季的历史回报试验表明 ,该模式对热带太平洋海表面温度和东亚区域的季节预测具有较好的预测能力。RegCM NCC的 5a模拟基本上能再现东亚地区主要雨带的季节进展。利用嵌套的区域气候模式RegCM NCC对 1991～ 2 0 0 0年的夏季回报表明 ,在预报主要季节雨带方面有一定技巧。 2 0 0 1～ 2 0 0 3年 ,CGCM和RegCM NCC的实时季节预报与观测相比基本合理。特别是 ,模式成功地预报了 2 0 0 3年梅雨季节长江和黄河之间比常年偏多的降水。SAOMS模式系统的回报试验表明 ,该系统对热带太平洋海表面温度距平有一定的预报能力 ,模式超前 6～ 12个月的回报与观测的相关系数明显高于持续预报。 1997～ 2 0 0 3年 ,SAOMS多模式集合实时预报与观测的相关系数达到     

Improvement of seasonal forecasts with inclusion of tropical instability waves on initial conditions

Positive impacts of tropical instability waves (TIWs) in initial conditions on seasonal forecasts are investigated using a air-sea coupled GCM. Due to coarse observational networks and deficiencies in widely-used initialization methods (e.g. 3DVAR or OI methods), TIW variability in oceanic initial conditions is excessively suppressed. It ruins the interaction between TIWs and climate states, therefore, degrades the climate forecast skills. To settle this problem, TIW patterns obtained from free integration is added to the spatially-smoothed initial conditions to simulate realistic seasonal TIW variability (TIWV). Through 20-year ensemble forecast experiments, it is shown that seasonal TIWV with TIWs-seeded initial conditions is significantly stronger until 2-month lead time. In addition, enhanced TIWV amplifies nonlinear relationship between TIWs and ENSO, which leads realistic simulation of the El Ni?o-La Ni?a asymmetry. As a result of better ENSO simulation, correlation improvement of simulated NINO3 index with TIWs-seeded initial conditions is over 0.1 at 4-month lead time.