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Paul Miller. Foto.

Paul Miller

Universitetslektor

Paul Miller. Foto.

Contribution of dynamic vegetation phenology to decadal climate predictability

Författare

  • M. Weiss
  • Paul Miller
  • B.J.J.M. van den Hurk
  • T. van Noije
  • S. Ştefănescu
  • R. Haarsma
  • L.H. van Ulft
  • W. Hazeleger
  • P. Le Sager
  • Benjamin Smith
  • Guy Schurgers
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Summary, in English

In this study, the impact of coupling and initializing the leaf area index from the dynamic vegetation model Lund-Potsdam-Jena General Ecosystem Simulator (LPJ-GUESS) is analyzed on skill of decadal predictions in the fully coupled atmosphere-land-ocean-sea ice model, the European Consortium Earth System Model (EC-Earth). Similar to the impact of initializing the model with the observed oceanic state, initializing the leaf area index (LAI) fields obtained from an offline LPJ-GUESS simulation forced by the observed atmospheric state leads to a systematic drift.A different treatment of the water and soil moisture budget in LPJ-GUESS is a likely cause of this drift. The coupled system reduces the cold bias of the reference model over land by reducing LAI (and the associated evaporative cooling), particularly outside the growing season. The coupling with the interactive vegetation module implies more degrees of freedom in the coupled model, which generates more noise that can mask a portion of the extra signal that is generated. The forecast reliability improves marginally, particularly early in the forecast. Ranked probability skill scores are also improved slightly in most areas analyzed, but the signal is not fully coherent over the forecast interval because of the relatively low number of ensemble members. Methods to remove the LAI drift and allow coupling of other variables probably need to be implemented before significant forecast skill can be expected.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

8563-8577

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Climate

Volym

27

Issue

22

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

American Meteorological Society

Ämne

  • Physical Geography

Nyckelord

  • leaf area index
  • weather forecasting
  • vegetation cover
  • climate variation
  • atmosphere-ocean coupling
  • atmosphere-biosphere interaction
  • Forecasting
  • Surface temperatures
  • Atmosphere-land interactions
  • Water treatment
  • Soil moisture
  • Sea ice
  • Evaporative cooling systems
  • Earth atmosphere
  • Computer simulation
  • Climatology
  • Budget control
  • Atmospheric temperature
  • Vegetation
  • Surface temperature
  • Forecast verification/skill
  • Climate variability
  • Atmosphere-land interaction
  • Climate prediction

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1520-0442