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Global Hydrology Modelling and Uncertainty:
Climate Change and Hydrological Extremes
Katie Anne Smith
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Background Climate Change
Regardless of efforts to reduce carbon emissions we are committed to significant changes in our climate [Stainforth et al., 2007]
‘The Blue Marble’ - NASA
IPCC best estimates of temperature change range from an increase of 1.8°C to 4°C at 2090-2099 relative to 1980-1999
Sea level could rise by up to 0.59m before the end of this century.
[IPCC Synthesis Report, 2007]
But what does this mean for global hydrology?
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IPCC 4AR 2080-2099
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Hydrological Extremes
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WATCH
[WATCH Outreach Report, Oct 2011]
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Problems Uncertainties are seldom recognised in modelling studies, and are
even more rarely quantified.
Studies of the effects of climate change on river discharge have previously been at the catchment, or regional scale, and models are rarely globally applicable.
[map drawn with data from USGS Hydro1K]
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Aims
1. To rigorously test the sensitivity of the Global Hydrological Model to a full range of parameters.
2. To assess how climate change may affect global daily runoff, including extreme flows.
3. To understand the uncertainties inherent in global hydrology projections.
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The Model
Using MacPDM.09 (Macro scale Probability Distributed Moisture model) Written in FORTRAN -------
Used as one of the models in the WATCH report
Going to use forcing data from WATCH
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Progress
1961-1990 Average Annual Runoff (mm) CLIMGEN
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The Plan
‘Living Document’
Checking off what I’ve completed (or not) so far
Have an option for further work in developing a more modern land cover dataset (GlobCover2009) if I have time.
My Timeline – Gantt Chart
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Next Steps for This Year
1. Run the model with the WATCH data.
2. Identify a set of catchments I want to focus my assessments on
3. Implement the topographic model
4. Identify model parameters
5. Run GLUE, MMGSA and BMA experiments.
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Any Questions?