statistical challenges in climatology
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Statistical Challenges in Climatology. Chris Ferro Climate Analysis Group Department of Meteorology University of Reading ‘Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.’ Mark Twain (?). RSS Birmingham Local Group, Coventry, 11 December 2003. Overview. History and general issues - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Statistical Challenges in Climatology
Chris Ferro
Climate Analysis Group
Department of Meteorology
University of Reading
‘Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.’ Mark Twain (?)
RSS Birmingham Local Group, Coventry, 11 December 2003
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Overview
• History and general issues
• Examples of research topics
• Climate change simulations
• Concluding remarks
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History
Jule G.Charney
VilhelmBjerknes
The Earth SimulatorLewis FryRichardson
1950
computerforecasts
1922
manualforecast
‘primitive’equations
1904 2002
GilbertWalker
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southernoscillation
1923
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General Issues
Dependent
Nonstationary
Huge datasets
Limited data
space and time: many scales
space and time: periodicities,
shocks, external forcings
station, satellite, simulation
short record, no replication
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Examples of Research Topics
• Observations
• Climate modes
• Numerical models
• Data assimilation
• Forecast calibration
• Other topics
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Observations
• Buoys• Field Stations• Ships & Aircraft
• Satellites• Radiosondes• Palaeo-records
• homogeneity, missing data, errors and outliers• network design and adaptive observations• statistical models to reconstruct past climates
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Climate Modes
• Principal components: multi-site observations
• Identifies patterns of simultaneous variation
• Physical significance• Reduces dimension• Rotated, simplified etc.
North Atlantic Oscillation,courtesy of Abdel Hannachi
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General Circulation Models
• Differential equations• Physical schemes• External forcings• Initial conditions• Numerical scheme• Deterministic output:
temp, precip, wind, pressure etc.
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Data Assimilation
State
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Solution
• Assumptions, approximations, choice of
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Forecast Calibration climate model
combinedregression model
Caio Coelho & Sergio Pezzulli
Prior: climate-model forecastLikelihood: regression model
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Other Topics
• Model validation
• Forecast verification
• Statistical downscaling
• Climate change attribution
• Stochastic models of processes
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Climate Change Simulations
• The PRUDENCE project
• Temperature and precipitation
• Distributional changes
• Extreme values
• Model uncertainty
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PRUDENCE
• European Climate• 30-year control
simulation, 1961-1990• 30-year A2 scenario
simulation, 2071-2100• 10 high-resolution
regional models• 6 global models
From www.ipcc.ch
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Mean Daily Rainfall
mm mm
Control (1961-1990) Scenario – Control
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Mean Daily Rainfall
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Mean Daily Rainfall Response
DJF JJA
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Mean Daily Rainfall Response
DJF JJA
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Mean Temperature
ºC
Control (1961-1990) Scenario – Control
ºC
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Mean TemperatureControl (1961-1990) Scenario – Control
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Distributional Changes
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Daily Rainfall ResponseDJF
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Temperature ResponseDJF
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Model Uncertainty
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Temperature: R2
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Temperature: Model Effects
°C
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Temperature: Model Response
°C
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Extreme Values
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Rainfall 10-DJF Return LevelsControl A2 Scenario / Control
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GEV Parameter Estimates
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Scale-change Model
p-value
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Concluding Remarks
Need for sophisticated statistical techniques to help to analyse large amount of complex data.
‘There is, to-day, always a risk that specialists in two subjects, using languages full of words that are unintelligible without study, will grow up not only, without knowledge of each other’s work, but also will ignore the problems which require mutual assistance.’ Sir Gilbert Walker, 1927
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Further Information
PRUDENCE
Climate Analysis Group
9th International Meeting
on Statistical Climatology,
Cape Town, 24-28 May 2004
prudence.dmi.dk
www.met.rdg.ac.uk/cag
www.csag.uct.ac.za/IMSC