Abstract A glacier submodel was successfully integrated into the distributed hydrological model WaSiM-ETH to simulate the discharge of a heavily glaciated drainage basin. The glacier submodel comprises a distributed temperature index model including solar radiation to simulate the melt rate of glaciated areas. Meltwater and rainfall are transformed into glacier discharge by using a linear reservoir approach. The model was tested on a high-alpine sub-basin of the Rhone basin (central Switzerland) of which 48% is glaciated. Continuous discharge simulations were performed for the period 1990–1996 and compared with hourly discharge observations. The pronounced daily and annual fluctuations in discharge were simulated well. The obtained efficiency criterion, R2, exceeds 0.89 for all years. The good performance of the glacier submodel is also demonstrated by integrating it into the hydrological model PREVAH. 相似文献
ABSTRACTConsideration of solar geoengineering as a potential response to climate change will demand complex decisions. These include not only the choice of whether to deploy solar engineering, but decisions regarding how to deploy, and ongoing decision-making throughout deployment. Research on the governance of solar geoengineering to date has primarily engaged only with the question of whether to deploy. We examine the science of solar geoengineering in order to clarify the technical dimensions of decisions about deployment – both strategic and operational – and how these might influence governance considerations, while consciously refraining from making specific recommendations. The focus here is on a hypothetical deployment rather than governance of the research itself. We first consider the complexity surrounding the design of a deployment scheme, in particular the complicated and difficult decision of what its objective(s) would be, given that different choices for how to deploy will lead to different climate outcomes. Next, we discuss the on-going decisions across multiple timescales, from the sub-annual to the multi-decadal. For example, feedback approaches might effectively manage some uncertainties, but would require frequent adjustments to the solar geoengineering deployment in response to observations. Other decisions would be tied to the inherently slow process of detection and attribution of climate effects in the presence of natural variability. Both of these present challenges to decision-making. These considerations point toward particular governance requirements, including an important role for technical experts – with all the challenges that entails.Key policy insights
Decisions about solar geoengineering deployment will be informed not only by political choices, but also by climate science and engineering.
Design decisions will pertain to the spatial and temporal goals of a climate intervention and strategies for achieving those goals.
Some uncertainty can be managed through feedback, but this would require frequent operational decisions.
Some strategic decisions will depend on the detection and attribution of climatic effects from solar geoengineering, which may take decades.
Governance for solar geoengineering deployment will likely need to incorporate technical expertise for making short-term adjustments to the deployment and conducting attribution analysis, while also slowing down decisions made in response to attribution analysis to avoid hasty choices.
Black carbon(BC) reduces the photolysis coefficient by absorbing solar radiation, thereby affecting the concentration of ozone(O_3) near the ground. The influence of BC on O_3 has thus received much attention. In this study, Mie scattering and the tropospheric Ultraviolet and Visible radiation model are used to analyze the effect of BC optical properties on radiation. Combined with data of O_3 precursors in Nanjing in 2014, an EKMA curve is drawn, and the variations in O_3 concentration are further investigated using a zero-dimensional box mechanism model(NCAR MM). When O_3 precursors are unchanged, radiation and O_3 show a highly similar tendency in response to changing BC optical properties(R=0.997).With the increase of modal radius, the attenuation of fresh BC to radiation and O_3 first trends upward before decreasing. In the mixing process, the attenuation of BC to radiation and O_3 presents an upward tendency with the increase of relative humidity but decreases rapidly before increasing slowly with increasing thickness of coating. In addition, mass concentration is another major factor. When the BC to PM2.5 ratio increases to 5% in Nanjing, the radiation decreases by approximately 0.13%–3.71% while O_3 decreases by approximately 8.13%–13.11%. The radiative effect of BC not only reduces O_3 concentration but also changes the EKMA curve. Compared with the NOx control area, radiation has a significant influence on the VOCs control area. When aerosol optical depth(AOD) increases by 17.15%, the NOx to VOCs ratio decreases by 8.27%, and part of the original NOx control area is transferred to the VOCs control area. 相似文献