論文

2017年5月

Uncertainty analysis of impacts of climate change on snow processes: Case study of interactions of GCM uncertainty and an impact model

JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
  • Ryoji Kudo
  • ,
  • Takeo Yoshida
  • ,
  • Takao Masumoto

548
開始ページ
196
終了ページ
207
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.03.007
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ELSEVIER

The impact of climate change on snow water equivalent (SWE) and its uncertainty were investigated in snowy areas of subarctic and temperate climate zones in Japan by using a snow process model and climate projections derived from general circulation models (GCMs). In particular, we examined how the uncertainty due to GCMs propagated through the snow model, which contained nonlinear processes defined by thresholds, as an example of the uncertainty caused by interactions among multiple sources of uncertainty. An assessment based on the climate projections in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 indicated that heavy -snowfall areas in the temperate zone (especially in low-elevation areas) were markedly vulnerable to temperature change, showing a large SWE reduction even under slight changes in winter temperature. The uncertainty analysis demonstrated that the uncertainty associated with snow processes (1) can be accounted for mainly by the interactions between GCM uncertainty (in particular, the differences of projected temperature changes between GCMs) and the nonlinear responses of the snow model and (2) depends on the balance between the magnitude of projected temperature changes and present climates dominated largely by climate zones and elevation. Specifically, when the peaks of the distributions of daily mean temperature projected by GCMs cross the key thresholds set in the model, the GCM uncertainty, even if tiny, can be amplified by the nonlinear propagation through the snow process model. This amplification results in large uncertainty in projections of CC impact on snow processes. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.03.007
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000403739000016&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.03.007
  • ISSN : 0022-1694
  • eISSN : 1879-2707
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000403739000016

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