Evaluation of hydrologic components of community land model 4 and bias identification
Abstract
Runoff and soil moisture are two key components of the global hydrologic cycle that should be validated at local to global scales in Earth System Models (ESMs) used for climate projection. Here, we have evaluated the runoff and surface soil moisture output by the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) along with 8 other models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) repository using satellite soil moisture observations and stream gauge corrected runoff products. A series of Community Land Model (CLM) runs forced by reanalysis and coupled model outputs was also performed to identify atmospheric drivers of biases and uncertainties in the CCSM. Results indicate that surface soil moisture simulations tend to be positively biased in high latitude areas by most selected CMIP5 models except CCSM, FGOALS, and BCC, which share similar land surface model code. With the exception of GISS, runoff simulations by all selected CMIP5 models were overestimated in mountain ranges and in most of the Arctic region. In general, positive biases in CCSM soil moisture and runoff due to precipitation input error were offset by negative biases induced by temperature input error. Excluding the impact from atmosphere modeling, the global mean of seasonal surface moisture oscillation was outmore »
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Climate Science Dept.
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Climate Science Dept.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1421795
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1254663
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 48; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0303-2434
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; CLM4; Surface soil moisture; Runoff; Historical evaluation; Bias test
Citation Formats
Du, Enhao, Vittorio, Alan Di, and Collins, William D. Evaluation of hydrologic components of community land model 4 and bias identification. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.03.013.
Du, Enhao, Vittorio, Alan Di, & Collins, William D. Evaluation of hydrologic components of community land model 4 and bias identification. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.03.013
Du, Enhao, Vittorio, Alan Di, and Collins, William D. Wed .
"Evaluation of hydrologic components of community land model 4 and bias identification". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.03.013. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1421795.
@article{osti_1421795,
title = {Evaluation of hydrologic components of community land model 4 and bias identification},
author = {Du, Enhao and Vittorio, Alan Di and Collins, William D.},
abstractNote = {Runoff and soil moisture are two key components of the global hydrologic cycle that should be validated at local to global scales in Earth System Models (ESMs) used for climate projection. Here, we have evaluated the runoff and surface soil moisture output by the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) along with 8 other models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) repository using satellite soil moisture observations and stream gauge corrected runoff products. A series of Community Land Model (CLM) runs forced by reanalysis and coupled model outputs was also performed to identify atmospheric drivers of biases and uncertainties in the CCSM. Results indicate that surface soil moisture simulations tend to be positively biased in high latitude areas by most selected CMIP5 models except CCSM, FGOALS, and BCC, which share similar land surface model code. With the exception of GISS, runoff simulations by all selected CMIP5 models were overestimated in mountain ranges and in most of the Arctic region. In general, positive biases in CCSM soil moisture and runoff due to precipitation input error were offset by negative biases induced by temperature input error. Excluding the impact from atmosphere modeling, the global mean of seasonal surface moisture oscillation was out of phase compared to observations in many years during 1985–2004. The CLM also underestimated runoff in the Amazon, central Africa, and south Asia, where soils all have high clay content. We hypothesize that lack of a macropore flow mechanism is partially responsible for this underestimation. However, runoff was overestimated in the areas covered by volcanic ash soils (i.e., Andisols), which might be associated with poor soil porosity representation in CLM. Finally, our results indicate that CCSM predictability of hydrology could be improved by addressing the compensating errors associated with precipitation and temperature and updating the CLM soil representation.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jag.2015.03.013},
journal = {International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation},
number = C,
volume = 48,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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