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Statistical Methods for Meteorology and Climate Change
The value of multi-proxy reconstruction ofpast climate
Bo Li
Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Based on joint work with:
Doug Nychka and Caspar Ammann
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Montreal, Canada Jan 14, 2011
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8618024.stm
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Outline
• Introduction-Why care about past climate?
• Various data sources
• BHM to integrate data from different sources
• Numerical analysis from climate model output
• Summary and discussion
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Why care about the PAST temperature?
• Long time series of climate variables including tem-perature are required to understand the dynamics ofclimate change
• Direct observations of surface temperature is onlyavailable from 1850
• Validate climate models - Atmosphere/Ocean Gen-eral Circulation Model (AOGCM)
How to get past temperatures?Reconstruct the past temperature from indirect obser-vations (proxies) such as Tree Ring, Pollen and Boreholeand Radiative Forcings.
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Data - Tree Ring
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Data - Pollen
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Data - Borehole
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Forcings
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Formulate the problem
Skill of each proxy and forcings
• Tree ring (Dendrochronology): annual to decadal
• Pollen: bi-decadal to semi-centennial
• Borehole: centennial and onward
• Forcings: external drivers
Goal: Reconstruct the 850-1849 temperature by allproxies, forcings and the 1850-1999 temperature
Bayesian Hierarchical Model (BHM) to thread allproxies, forcings and temperatures
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Bayesian Hierarchical Model (BHM)
A distribution rule:[P, T, θ] = [P |T, θ][T |θ][θ]
Three hierarchies:
• Data Stage: [Proxies|Temperature, Parameters]
Likelihood of Proxies given temperatures
• Process Stage: [Temperature|Parameters]
Physical model of temperature process
• Parameter Stage: [Parameters]
Specify the prior of parameters
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BHM
• Data Stage: [Data|Geophysical Process, Parameters]
Di|(T′1,T′2)′ = µiD1+ βiDMD(T′1,T′2)′+ εiD, εiD ∼ AR(2)
Pj|(T′1,T′2)′ = µjP1+ βjPMP(T′1,T′2)′+ εjP , εjP ∼ AR(2)
Bk|(T′1,T′2)′ = MB{µkB1+ βkB(T′1,T′2)′+ εkB}, εkB
iid∼N(0, σ2B)
V|V0 = (1+ εV )V0, εViid∼ N(0,1/64)
– Di,Pj,Bk: tree-ring (Dendrochronology),
Pollen, Borehole [different length]
– V0, V: Volcanism, Volcanic series with error
– MD, MP , MB: transformation matrices to link tem-perature series to tree-ring, pollen and borehole
– T1: unknown temperatures; T2: observed temper-atures (1850-present)
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BHM
• Process Stage: [Geophysical Process|Parameters]
(T′1,T′2)|(S,V0,C) = β01+β1S+β2V0+β3C+εT , εT ∼ AR(2)
– S, V0, C: Solar irradiance, Volcanism,
greenhouse gases (CO2)
• Parameter Stage: [Parameters]
Specify the prior of parameters
Target: estimate T1 given T2 (1850-present),
proxies and forcings
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Apply BHM to Climate from Models
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Com-munity Climate System Model (CCSM) Version 1.4
• Provide test beds to evaluate our reconstructionmethod
• Climate model is highly nonlinear and substantialcomplexity
Resolution:
– 3.750 × 3.750/400km×400km for atmosphere and land
• Generate synthetic proxies (15 Tree-Ring, 10 Pollenand 5 Borehole) from model climate based on theirown characteristics
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Climate from Models
Pollen: 7.50 × 7.50; Borehole: 200 × 200
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Synthetic Proxies Generation
Generate synthetic proxies:
• 15 tree rings: subtract the 10-year smoothing aver-age from each of the local temperature series
• 10 pollen: Sample a 10-year smoothing average tem-perature series at 30 year intervals
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• 5 borehole:
– POM-SAT Forward Model
– describe the diffusion process ofsurface temperature
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Interesting Questions
• What is the optimal skill of our BHM model?
• What is the skill of each proxy?
• What is the role of forcings?
• What if we only model T1 in the process stage?
• How does the noise in proxies affect the reconstruc-tion?
– Perfect proxies: proxies directly generated fromthe local/regional temperatures
– Contaminated proxies: The signal to noise ratio ischosen 1:4 in terms of their variance
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Numerical Study
Five models with different subsets of proxy orrelated data:
• local/regional Temperature series (T)
Tl|(T′1,T′2)′ = µl1+ βl(T′1,T
′2)′+ εl, εl ∼ AR(2)(σ2, φ1, φ2)
• Tree ring (Dendrochronology) only (D)
• Tree ring + Pollen (DP)
• Tree ring + Borehole (DB)
• Tree ring + Borehole + Pollen (DBP)
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Numerical Study
A 23 factorial design for each of the five models (40reconstructions):
• with/without forcing covariates
(T′1,T′2)′ = β01+ εT , εT ∼ AR(2)(σ2
T , φ1T , φ2T).
• with/without proxy noise
• modeling T1/T in the process model
T1|(S,V0,C) = β01+ β1S+ β2V0 + β3C+ εT
εT ∼ AR(2)(σ2T , φ1T , φ2T).
orT1 = β01+ εT , εT ∼ AR(2)(σ2
T , φ1T , φ2T)
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Bias, Variance and Rmse
• Bias = E(T1 − T1)
• Variance = var(T1 − T1)
• Rmse =√E(T1 − T1)2 = sqrt(Bias2+Variance).
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A Formal Way for Reconstruction Comparison
Posterior predictive loss criterion (Gelfand and Ghosh,1998)
Dk(m) = P (m) +k
k+1G(m)
• Dk(m): loss function for each reconstruction m,
m = 1,2, . . . ,40
• k ≥ 0: a weighting parameter
• P (m): sum of predictive variances that imposes penaltyon the complexity of models
• G(m): sum of squared errors that measures the
goodness-of-fit
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Using smoothed spectrum of reconstruction residuals from the five
data models to illustrate the frequency band at which proxies cap-
ture the variation of the temperature process.
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The Value of Forcings and Proxies
• Forcing covariates dramatically reduce the bias, thevariance and thus rmse
– if the included proxy data do not well represent thelow frequency variability
• Not surprisingly
– tree-rings retain the high frequency variability
– pollen captures the variability at about a 30 yearperiod and onward
• Kind of surprising: Borehole helps to reduce the biasonly a bit
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Other Inferences
• Cause of Bias
The reconstruction with T = (T′1,T′2)′ in the process
stage carries systematic positive bias
– in particular when forcing is not included, i.e.,
(T′1,T′2)′ = β01+ εT
– Reason: T1 and T2 do not have the same mean
– Solution: Incorporate forcings
• Sensitivity to Noise in Proxies
The reconstruction deteriorates somewhat but notterribly
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Summary and Future Work
• Systematically investigate the role of proxies and forc-ings to provide a guide for temperature reconstruc-tion
• Suggest multi-proxy reconstructions with tree-ringsand pollen assemblages and also including externalforcings
• Bayesian analysis provides a rigorous and easy methodto quantify the uncertainty of the reconstruction
• Explicitly modeled measurement errors
(Ammann, Genton and Li, 2010)
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Summary and Future Work
• More formally consider dating errors in pollen data(Haslett and Parnell, 2008)
• Extend the results to real world conditions
• Spatio-temporal reconstruction of multiple climatevariables (Tingley and Huybers, 2010)
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Thanks!
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