A Temperature-Scaling Approach for Projecting Changes in Short Duration Rainfall Extremes from GCM Data

被引：19

作者：

Dahm, Ruben ^{[1
]}

Bhardwaj, Aashish ^{[2
]}

Weiland, Frederiek Sperna ^{[2
]}

Corzo, Gerald ^{[3
]}

Bouwer, Laurens M. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Deltares USA Inc, 8601 Georgia Ave Suite 508, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA

[2] Deltares, POB 177, NL-2600 MH Delft, Netherlands

[3] IHE Delft Inst Water Educ, Dept Integrated Water Syst & Governance, POB 3015, NL-2601 DA Delft, Netherlands

[4] Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Climate Serv Ctr Germany, D-20095 Hamburg, Germany

来源：

WATER | 2019年 / 11卷 / 02期

关键词：

precipitation; dew-point; temperature; extremes; climate change; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; HOURLY PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; FUTURE CHANGES; FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGY; INCREASE; IMPACTS; TRENDS; SCALES;

D O I：

10.3390/w11020313

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

Current and future urban flooding is influenced by changes in short-duration rainfall intensities. Conventional approaches to projecting rainfall extremes are based on precipitation projections taken from General Circulation Models (GCM) or Regional Climate Models (RCM). However, these and more complex and reliable climate simulations are not yet available for many locations around the world. In this work, we test an approach that projects future rainfall extremes by scaling the empirical relation between dew-point temperature and hourly rainfall and projected changes in dew-point temperature from the EC-Earth GCM. These projections are developed for the RCP 8.5 scenario and are applied to a case study in the Netherlands. The shift in intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves shows that a 100-year (hourly) rainfall event today could become a 73-year event (GCM), but could become as frequent as a 30-year (temperature-scaling) in the period 2071-2100. While more advanced methods can help to further constrain future changes in rainfall extremes, the temperature-scaling approach can be of use in practical applications in urban flood risk and design studies for locations where no high-resolution precipitation projections are available.

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