improving lake process prediction within the climate
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Improving lake process prediction within the Climate Forecast System for North America
Jiming Jin, Shaobo Zhang, and Zhemin Lu,
Departments of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University
Michael Ek and Yihua Wu Environmental Modeling Center (EMC)
National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
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Project Motivations
• The Climate Forecast System (CFS) version 2 does not include a lake scheme.
• For resolved lakes (i.e. the Great Lakes), the CFS model treats them as ocean; and unresolved small lakes are treated as land.
• Lake processes and their interactions with the atmosphere are neglected. • Potentially degrading CFS climate forecasting skill.
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Project Objectives
1) To incorporate a physically based lake model into CFS
2) To evaluate and improve the prediction skill of CFS
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The lake fractions for the CFS model grids at a 100 km resolution
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The FLake Model
• The Freshwater Lake (Flake) model developed by Mironov (2008): http://www.flake.igb-berlin.de
• FLake is a one dimensional, two-layer physically based lake model that
simulates: • lake temperature • surface fluxes • lake ice thickness
• It is currently operational in climate system models in Europe and Canada.
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Lake Thermal Stratification
Epilimnion
Metalimnion
Hypolimnion
Temperature (oC)
Dep
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The FLake model
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The bathymetry of the Great Lakes
The bathymetry of the Great Lakes (m)
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Lake Huron
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1984-2010
Lake surface temperature simulations
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The Improved FLake model
Epilimnion
Metalimnion
Hypolimnion
Temperature (oC)
Dep
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One additional layer is added to the Flake model to describe the hypolimnion
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1984-2010
Lake surface temperature simulations
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Lake surface temperature simulations
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2008-2009
Lake temperature profile simulations for Lake Superior
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September 2008
Lake temperature profile simulations for Lake Superior
March 2009
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Lake ice simulations
1984-2002
0.32 0.56
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if (flag_lake == 0) then ! Noah
call sfc_drv (…)
else if (flag_lake == 1) then ! Noah with FLake
call sfc_drv_Flake(…)
end if
subroutine sfc_drv_Flake(…) … if ( RFrLake (iix,iiy) .ge. lake_pct_min ) then ! RFrLake > lake_pct_min, FLake is activated call sfc_drv(…)
call flake(…) ! Do flux average
End if end subroutine sfc_drv_Flake Currently, lake_pct_min is set to 10%
CFS subroutines ghphys.f sfc_drv.f Flake subroutine sfc_drv_Flake.f
Lake fraction and lake depth from the Global Lake Database version 2 (Kourzeneva, 2009)
Coupling between CFS and FLake
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• Initial times: Z00 on 1st, 6th , 11th, 16th, 21st , and 26th
• Run time: 9 months
• Hindcasts: Starting from April 2013 through December 2014 to produce 9 leads for each simulation month for 2014.
• There are total 6 ensemble members for each simulation month from January through December 2014 .
Ensemble simulations with CFS and CFS_FLake for 2014
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Temperature hindcasts with CFS and CFS_Flake for 2014
0.46℃
-0.17℃
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Surface skin temperature hindcasts with CFS and CFS_FLake for 2014
0.51℃
-0.29℃
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Precipitation hindcasts with CFS and CFS_Flake for 2014
0.60mm
-0.66mm
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Lake Fraction distribution in the Great Lakes region in CFS_FLake
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Correlation between hindcasts and observations for the Great Lakes region
CFS temperature hindcasts
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Observation: the Climate Research Unit (CRU) data
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Temperature observations and hindcasts for the Great Lakes region
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Correlation between hindcasts and observations for the Great Lakes region
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Lake ice hindcasts for the Great Lakes for 2014
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Lake ice hindcasts for the Great Lakes for 2014
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Summary
1) We added one additional layer to the FLake model for deep lakes (>50 m) to improve the simulations of lake stratifications.
2) The improved FLake model produces better simulations for lake surface temperature, temperature profile and lake ice.
3) The coupled CFS_FLake model changes precipitation and temperature forecasts at both global and regional scales when compared to the original CFS.
4) The coupled model produces a better spatial distribution of lake ice than the original CFS for the Great Lakes region.
5) Longer term ensemble simulations with the coupled CFS-FLake model are needed to more objectively evaluate its performance in climate forecasts.