Bias Correction of Hydrologic Projections Strongly Impacts Inferred Climate Vulnerabilities in Institutionally Complex Water Systems

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العنوان: Bias Correction of Hydrologic Projections Strongly Impacts Inferred Climate Vulnerabilities in Institutionally Complex Water Systems
المؤلفون: Keyvan Malek, Patrick Reed, Harrison Zeff, Andrew Hamilton, Melissa Wrzesien, Natan Holtzman, Scott Steinschneider, Jonathan Herman, Tamlin Pavelsky
المصدر: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 148(1)
بيانات النشر: United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Meteorology And Climatology, Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
الوصف: Water-resources planners use regional water management models (WMMs) to identify vulnerabilities to climate change. Frequently, dynamically downscaled climate inputs are used in conjunction with land-surface models (LSMs) to provide hydrologic streamflow projections, which serve as critical inputs for WMMs. Here, we show how even modest projection errors can strongly affect assessments of water availability and financial stability for irrigation districts in California. Specifically, our results highlight that LSM errors in projections of flood and drought extremes are highly interactive across timescales, path-dependent, and can be amplified when modeling infrastructure systems (e.g., misrepresenting banked groundwater). Common strategies for reducing errors in deterministic LSM hydrologic projections (e.g., bias correction) can themselves strongly distort projected climate vulnerabilities and misrepresent their inferred financial consequences. Overall, our results indicate a need to move beyond standard deterministic climate projection and error management frameworks that are dependent on single simulated climate change scenario outcomes.
نوع الوثيقة: Report
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1943-5452
0733-9496
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001493
URL الوصول: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20220000626
ملاحظات: NNX17AE79A

J-090007

NSF 1639268
رقم الأكسشن: edsnas.20220000626
قاعدة البيانات: NASA Technical Reports
الوصف
تدمد:19435452
07339496
DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001493