Fred Hattermann
Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study
Hattermann, Fred; Vetter, Tobias; Breuer, Lutz; Su, Buda; Daggupati, Prasad; Donnelly, Chantal; Fekete, Balazs; Fl�rke, Martina; Gosling, Simon N.; Hoffmann, Peter; Liersch, Stefan; Masaki, Yoshimitsu; Motovilov, Yury; M�ller, Christoph; Samaniego, Luis; Stacke, Tobias; Wada, Y.; Yang, Tao; Krysanova, Valentina
Authors
Tobias Vetter
Lutz Breuer
Buda Su
Prasad Daggupati
Chantal Donnelly
Balazs Fekete
Martina Fl�rke
Dr SIMON GOSLING SIMON.GOSLING@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Climate Risks and Environmental Modelling
Peter Hoffmann
Stefan Liersch
Yoshimitsu Masaki
Yury Motovilov
Christoph M�ller
Luis Samaniego
Tobias Stacke
Y. Wada
TAO YANG TAO.YANG@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Valentina Krysanova
Abstract
Climate change impacts on water availability and hydrological extremes are major concerns as regards the Sustainable Development Goals. Impacts on hydrology are normally investigated as part of a modelling chain, in which climate projections from multiple climate models are used as inputs to multiple impact models, under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, which are resulting in different amounts of global temperature rise. While the goal is generally to investigate the relevance of changes in climate for the water cycle, water resources or hydrological extremes, it is often the case that variations in other components of the model chain obscure the effect of climate scenario variation. This is particularly important when assessing the impacts of relatively lower magnitudes of global warming, such as those associated with the aspirational goals of the Paris Agreement. In our study, we use ANOVA (ANalyses Of VAriance) to allocate and quantify the main sources of uncertainty in the hydrological impact modelling chain. In turn we determine the statistical significance of different sources of uncertainty. We achieve this by using a set of 5 climate models and up to 13 hydrological models, for 9 large scale river basins across the globe, under 4 emissions scenarios. The impact variable we consider in our analysis is daily river discharge. We analyze overall water availability and flow regime, including seasonality, high flows and low flows. Scaling effects are investigated by separately looking at discharge generated by global and regional hydrological models respectively. Finally, we compare our results with other recently published studies. We find that small differences in global temperature rise associated with some emissions scenarios have mostly significant impacts on river discharge – however, climate model related uncertainty is so large that it obscures the sensitivity of the hydrological system.
Citation
Hattermann, F., Vetter, T., Breuer, L., Su, B., Daggupati, P., Donnelly, C., …Krysanova, V. (2018). Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study. Environmental Research Letters, 13(1), Article 5006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9938
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 9, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jan 18, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Nov 13, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 18, 2018 |
Journal | Environmental Research Letters |
Electronic ISSN | 1748-9326 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 5006 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9938 |
Keywords | Climate change uncertainty; Multi-model assessment; Hydrology; Water resources; ANOVA; Paris climate agreement |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/905916 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9938 |
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