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SPATIOTEMPORALVARIABILITY …...Motivation InternationalDisaster#Situation#Reports,...
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H. S. Badr, B. F. Zaitchik, A. K. Dezfuli Johns Hopkins University
SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF PRECIPITATION OVER AFRICA
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Motivation • Africa is characterized by considerable variability of precipitation.
• Africa's average annual rainfall has decreased since 1968,
• There is also some evidence that natural disasters have increased in frequency and severity, particularly drought in the Sahel.
Sheffield et al. 2009
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Motivation
International Disaster Situation Reports, Centre for International Disaster Information
Drought events per country from 1970 to 2004 within Sub-‐Saharan
Africa Review Report on Drought and Desertification, UNECA-‐2008
Drought Flood
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Now Presented (for Sahel) In progress
Objectives • Assessment of the interannual variability of precipitation over Africa at different temporal resolutions, using PCA. • Spatial patterns are temporally specific…
• Regionalization of Africa into homogeneous precipitation climates using Hierarchical Clustering Analysis (HCA). • Definition of seasons, as sets of months, for each region…
• Prediction of precipitation variability for each region • Developing and testing multiple statistical models…
• Association of precipitation variability with global patterns • Understanding mechanisms and representation in climate models…
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Data and Methods Dataset / Variable Spatial Resolution Temporal Resolution Type
BADC CRU-‐TS 3.1 0.5o Monthly (1901-‐2009) ADW Interpolation
NASA GPCP 2.5o Monthly (1979-‐2010) Rain Gauge, Satellite
NOAA/CPC CMAP 2.5o Monthly (1979-‐2009) Rain Gauge, Satellite
Univ. of Delaware 2.5o Monthly (1900-‐2008) Rain Gauge
NCDC GHCN 5o Monthly (1900-‐now) Rain Gauge
NOAA/GFDL CM 2.1 2.5o Monthly Model
NOAA/GFDL CM 2.1* 2.5o Monthly Model
NASA GISS-‐E2-‐R 2.5o Monthly Model
Climate Indices Monthly Timeseries
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Data and Methods
• Data collection and preparation • Extracting data subsets for each month • Standardizing and/or masking the fields
Pre-‐processing
• EOF preparation • SVD-‐based EOF Analysis • Rotated/Mixed/Extended EOF Analysis*
PCA
• Similarity measures • Linkages and grouping • Verifying the cluster tree
HCA
• Visualizing the results • Sensitivity to different parameters • Comparing different data sources
Post-‐Processing
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Variability of African Precipitation
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Variability of African Precipitation
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PC1 of Annual and Seasonal Precipitation
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Correlation of PCs with Global Patterns
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Spatial Patterns of Annual Precipitation
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Spatial Patterns of Annual Precipitation Stan
dardized
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Spatial Patterns of Annual Precipitation Stan
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EOF1 of Monthly Precipitation
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Variance Explained
18 18 20
22 23 24 23 22
25
21 19 18
22
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC Annual
Number of PCs that explain 70% of the total variance based on interannual variability for each month and annual average
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Regionalization
2 Regions Distanc
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Regionalization
3 Regions Distanc
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Regionalization
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Regionalization
5 Regions Distanc
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Regionalization
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Regionalization
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Regionalization
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Regionalization
9 Regions Distanc
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Regionalization
10 Regions Distanc
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Regionalization
14 Regions Distanc
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All Months vs. Annual – 14 Regions
All Months [70% of the variance] Annual [70% of the variance]
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CRU TS3.1 vs. CM2.1 – 14 Regions
CRU TS3.1 [70% of the variance] CM2.1 [70% of the variance]
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Statistical Predictive Models for Sahel
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Conclusions • Spatial patterns of African precipitation are monthly specific.
• The variability of African precipitation is associated with global patterns and the relation can be identified for each region.
• Regionalization supports improved predictive modeling.
• Statistical predictive models could be developed to predict precipitation variability and understand its drivers and mechanisms.
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Future Work • Examining the representation of the variability of African precipitation in climate models • Histograms, Homogeneity, and contiguity tests • Comparing with other observational data and outputs from climate models • Developing and testing multiple statistical models for each region
• Evolution of regions with time (decades/centuries)
• Extension to studying the African droughts and/or floods
• Statistical vs. dynamical downscaling
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QUESTIONS?