Does a successful comprehensive evaluation increase confidence in a hydrological model intended for climate impact assessment?

Gelfan, A.; Kalugin, A.; Krylenko, I.; Nasonova, O.; Gusev, Y.; Kovalev, E.

Авторы: Gelfan A., Kalugin A., Krylenko I., Nasonova O., Gusev Ye, Kovalev E.
Журнал: Climatic Change
Номер: https://rdcu.be/cbqyQ
Год издания: 2020
Издательство: Reidel Pub. Co.
Местоположение издательства: Netherlands
Первая страница: 1
Последняя страница: 21
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-020-02930-z
Аннотация: The objective of the study is to verify a hypothesis that a hydrological model, whichsuccessfully passed a comprehensive evaluation test (CE-test), is more suitable for climate impact study than that which failed the test. In our study, the CE-test is a specially designed model evaluation procedure, including a set of enhanced tests of model performance and robustness. The hypothesis verification is carried out with two models, ECOMAG and SWAP, which are applied for the Lena and Mackenzie River basins. The following three versions of every model are compared: (1) version A with a priori assigned parameters (without any calibration); (2) version B calibrated against streamflow observations at the basin outlets only, and (3) version Ccalibrated against streamflow observations at several gauges within the basins. We found that the B and C versions were successful in passing the CE-test, while the A versions failed the test. The C versions performed better than the B versions, especially at the monthly time scale. Then, all model versions were forced by globalclimate model (GCM) ensemble data to simulate flow projections for the twenty-first century and assess the projection uncertainty. Summarizing the results, we found that the differences in projections (in terms of mean annual changes in discharge and their uncertainties) between A version and two other versions were nearly threetimes larger than the differences between the B and C versions. Thus, the CE-test results together with the estimated differences in projections give us reason to conclude that the successful comprehensive evaluation of a model increases itsconfidence and suitability for impact assessment.
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