assessment of cfsr data and lars-wg model accuracy in climate parameter simulation of chaharmahal and bakhtiari province

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سمیرا اخوان

استادیار گروه علوم و مهندسی آب، دانشکدة کشاورزی، دانشگاه بوعلی سینا نسرین دلاور

دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد آبیاری و زهکشی، گروه علوم و مهندسی آب، دانشکدة کشاورزی، دانشگاه بوعلی سینا

abstract

daily weather information is currently available for about 40000 stations across the world. but, distribution of these stations is relatively uneven in some parts of the world. moreover, there are often large amounts of missing values (schuol and abbaspour, 2007:301). using generated data can help to fill missing or even to correct erroneously measured data (fodor et al., 2010: 91). lars-wg is a stochastic weather generator which can simulate weather data under both current and future climate conditions at a single site (semenov and barrow, 2002: 3). there is another watershed modeling problem, which weather stations are often outside of/or at a long distance from the watersheds. so, recorded data may not meaningfully indicate the weather taking place over a watershed. therefore, some researchers have developed radar data to supply precipitation inputs in watershed modeling (fuka et al., 2013: 1). but, these data are only available in small parts of the world. so, considering additional methods to generate weather conditions over watersheds is necessary. using reanalysis dataset (cfsr) is one option (fuka et al., 2013: 1). dile and srinivasan (2013) investigated cfsr climate data in the lake tana basin in the nile basin. the results showed simulations with cfsr and conventional weather gave trivial differences in the water balance components in all except one watershed. in the four zones, both weather simulations indicated similar annual crop yields. nevertheless the conventional weather simulation results were better than the cfsr weather simulation, but they can be applied as important option for regions where no weather stations exist such as remote subbasin of the upper nile basin. soltani and hoogenboom (2003) evaluated the weather generators wgen and simmeteo for 5 iranian locations. the results showed that wgen was successful to generate maximum and minimum temperatures and simmeteo was acceptable to reproduce minimum temperature and solar radiation. the objective of current study was assessment of accuracy of weather generator lars-wg and cfsr data in simulation of climate parameters of chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. materials and methods the study was conducted in chaharmahal and bakhtiary province. this province, with an area of 16532 km2, is located between to 31° 09' to 32° 48' north latitude and 49° 28' to 51° 25' east longitude and provides more than 10% of the water resources of iran. 1- lars-wg model lars-wg model applies complex statistical distributions for simulation of meteorological variables. the basis of this model to simulate dry and wet periods is daily precipitation and radiation series semi-empirical distribution. the temperature is estimated by fourier series. the output of this model includes minimum temperature, maximum temperature, precipitation and solar radiation (babaeian et al., 2007: 62). 2- required data for lars-wg model required data for lars-wg model includes daily maximum temperature, minimum temperature, precipitation and solar radiation (sunshine hours). these data were provided for four selected synoptic weather stations (shahrekord, koohrang, boroojen and lordegan). 3- cfsr data reanalysis is a systematic approach to produce data sets for climate monitoring. reanalysis data are created through a fixed data assimilation design and models which use all available observations every 6 hours over the period being analyzed. cfsr data has a global horizontal resolution of 38 km. the cfsr adjacent stations were determined for the four mentioned stations. daily weather data of each station during 1991-2010 was implemented in the lars-wg model. for assessment of both data, the comparison of statistical indices such as rmse, mbe, mae and r2 was used in daily, monthly, annual and decade scales. results and discussion the results showed that there is no correlation between the output of lars-wg model and observed daily precipitation data in each of the four stations. the values of these coefficients for minimum and maximum temperatures increased in all stations. in general, due to high values of rmse and mae, this model was not successful in simulation of daily climate parameters. performance of the model to simulate monthly and annual scale was better than daily. ability of lars-wg model in simulation of long-term period (decade) was satisfactory. also, results indicated that monthly and annual climate parameters by cfsr data have been predicted by a more effective performance. because statistical indices of cfsr data are lower than lars-wg. these data underestimated the precipitation in shahrekord station. rmse and mae values of monthly precipitation are 20.49 and 11.19 respectively in shahrekord station, for cfsr data. these values for annual precipitation are 92.88 and 72.51. for lars-wg model in monthly scale, rmse and mae values are 41.45and 24/75 and these values in annual scale are 164.75 and 123.43. conclusions in recent years, it is necessary to get accurate and long-term meteorological data due to climate events and scarcity of meteorological stations across the country. so, it is a reasonable solution to use weather generators. the objective of current study was assessment of accuracy of weather generator lars-wg and cfsr data in simulation of climate parameters of chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. in general, the results showed the ability of lars-wg model in simulation of long-term period (decade) data. so, values of statistical indicators are not satisfying in short-time periods. statistical indices of cfsr data are lower than lars-wg in simulation of short-time period (monthly and annual). they are highly correlated with the observations and they can simulate climate parameters in short- time. therefore, considering the purposes of any specific research, both lars-wg model and cfsr dataset can be used. moreover, cfsr data can be applied as valuable option for regions where there are no weather stations.

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daily weather information is currently available for about 40000 stations across the world. but distribution of these stations is relatively uneven in some parts of the world. moreover there are often large amounts of missing values (schuol and abbaspour 2007:301). using generated data can help to fill missing or even to correct erroneously measured data (fodor et al. 2010: 91). lars wg is a stochastic weather generator which can simulate weather data under both current and future climate conditions at a single site (semenov and barrow 2002: 3). there is another watershed modeling problem which weather stations are often outside of/or at a long distance from the watersheds. so recorded data may not meaningfully indicate the weather taking place over a watershed. therefore some researchers have developed radar data to supply precipitation inputs in watershed modeling (fuka et al. 2013: 1). but these data are only available in small parts of the world. so considering additional methods to generate weather conditions over watersheds is necessary. using reanalysis dataset (cfsr) is one option (fuka et al. 2013: 1). dile and srinivasan (2013) investigated cfsr climate data in the lake tana basin in the nile basin. the results showed simulations with cfsr and conventional weather gave trivial differences in the water balance components in all except one watershed. in the four zones both weather simulations indicated similar annual crop yields. nevertheless the conventional weather simulation results were better than the cfsr weather simulation but they can be applied as important option for regions where no weather stations exist such as remote subbasin of the upper nile basin. soltani and hoogenboom (2003) evaluated the weather generators wgen and simmeteo for 5 iranian locations. the results showed that wgen was successful to generate maximum and minimum temperatures and simmeteo was acceptable to reproduce minimum temperature and solar radiation. the objective of current study was assessment of accuracy of weather generator lars wg and cfsr data in simulation of climate parameters of chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. materials and methods the study was conducted in chaharmahal and bakhtiary province. this province with an area of 16532 km2 is located between to 31° 09' to 32° 48' north latitude and 49° 28' to 51° 25' east longitude and provides more than 10% of the water resources of iran. 1 lars wg model lars wg model applies complex statistical distributions for simulation of meteorological variables. the basis of this model to simulate dry and wet periods is daily precipitation and radiation series semi empirical distribution. the temperature is estimated by fourier series. the output of this model includes minimum temperature maximum temperature precipitation and solar radiation (babaeian et al. 2007: 62). 2 required data for lars wg model required data for lars wg model includes daily maximum temperature minimum temperature precipitation and solar radiation (sunshine hours). these data were provided for four selected synoptic weather stations (shahrekord koohrang boroojen and lordegan). 3 cfsr data reanalysis is a systematic approach to produce data sets for climate monitoring. reanalysis data are created through a fixed data assimilation design and models which use all available observations every 6 hours over the period being analyzed. cfsr data has a global horizontal resolution of 38 km. the cfsr adjacent stations were determined for the four mentioned stations. daily weather data of each station during 1991 2010 was implemented in the lars wg model. for assessment of both data the comparison of statistical indices such as rmse mbe mae and r2 was used in daily monthly annual and decade scales. results and discussion the results showed that there is no correlation between the output of lars wg model and observed daily precipitation data in each of the four stations. the values of these coefficients for minimum and maximum temperatures increased in all stations. in general due to high values of rmse and mae this model was not successful in simulation of daily climate parameters. performance of the model to simulate monthly and annual scale was better than daily. ability of lars wg model in simulation of long term period (decade) was satisfactory. also results indicated that monthly and annual climate parameters by cfsr data have been predicted by a more effective performance. because statistical indices of cfsr data are lower than lars wg. these data underestimated the precipitation in shahrekord station. rmse and mae values of monthly precipitation are 20.49 and 11.19 respectively in shahrekord station for cfsr data. these values for annual precipitation are 92.88 and 72.51. for lars wg model in monthly scale rmse and mae values are 41.45and 24/75 and these values in annual scale are 164.75 and 123.43. conclusions in recent years it is necessary to get accurate and long term meteorological data due to climate events and scarcity of meteorological stations across the country. so it is a reasonable solution to use weather generators. the objective of current study was assessment of accuracy of weather generator lars wg and cfsr data in simulation of climate parameters of chaharmahal and bakhtiari province. in general the results showed the ability of lars wg model in simulation of long term period (decade) data. so values of statistical indicators are not satisfying in short time periods. statistical indices of cfsr data are lower than lars wg in simulation of short time period (monthly and annual). they are highly correlated with the observations and they can simulate climate parameters in short time. therefore considering the purposes of any specific research both lars wg model and cfsr dataset can be used. moreover cfsr data can be applied as valuable option for regions where there are no weather stations.

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