I believe in climate change but how precautionary do we need to be in planning for the future?
I believe in climate change but how precautionary do we need to be in planning for the future?
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我相信气候变化,但我们在规划未来时需要采取多大的预防措施?
DOI:
10.1002/hyp.7939
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Beven K
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作者:
Beven K
I believe in climate change. I am concerned, however, that the projections of the current generation of global climate models are not entirely credible. Comparisons of their predictions with the normal control period (1961–1990) show that they often exhibit strong bias, particularly with respect to precipitation estimates (Leith and Chandler, 2010). They are inadequate predictors of the control period in many parts of the world, even where there are ensemble predictions of regional-scale dynamic downscaling models, to the extent that many hydrological studies of the impacts of climate change are using bias corrections with respect to current conditions that are then assumed to hold in the future.In the United Kingdom, the UKCP09 outputs at http://ukcp09. defra. gov. uk/show many different aspects of the predicted changes at 25 km scale. They do not show any comparison of the predictions with the control period (despite having posted an official question asking for these to be made available. I am still awaiting a reply. Can I encourage others to log on and pose the same question!). Indeed, the UKCP09 weather generator (for which predicted realizations of weather at the 5 km scale can be obtained based on control period statistics), uses the regional future climate projections only by applying regional climate model (RCM)-derived change factors to the control period parameters in generating future realizations (Kilsby et al., 2007). We expect, of course, that with more research money devoted to climate modelling, more computer power devoted to climate modelling at finer grid scales, better land surface parameterizations in the models (ie the hydrology and hydrologists should still wince at how it is being represented!) and improved understanding of other process representations in the models, the projections of the next generation of climate models might well be better. But in the meantime, there is an awful lot of research time, effort and money being devoted to impact studies based on the projections of the current generation of models (Wilby and Harris, 2006; Bell et al., 2007, and many others). The question is whether any of this work is fit for the purpose of adapting to, or managing for, the future?
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影响因子:
5.2
作者:
R. Wilby
通讯作者:
R. Wilby
DOI:
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发表时间:
2007
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影响因子:
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作者:
J. Hall
通讯作者:
J. Hall
DOI:
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发表时间:
2009
期刊:
影响因子:
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作者:
Sile Li;A. Jarvis
通讯作者:
A. Jarvis
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
A. Jarvis;D. Leedal;James Taylor;P. Young
通讯作者:
P. Young