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Seasonal prediction of June rainfall over South China: Model assessment and statistical downscaling |
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| Authors: | Kun-Hui Ye Chi-Yung Tam Wen Zhou Soo-Jin Sohn |
| Institution: | 1. Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2. Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 3. Climate Prediction Team, APEC Climate Center, Busan, Republic of Korea |
| Abstract: | The performances of various dynamical models from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) Climate Center(APCC) multi-model ensemble(MME) in predicting station-scale rainfall in South China(SC) in June were evaluated.It was found that the MME mean of model hindcasts can skillfully predict the June rainfall anomaly averaged over the SC domain.This could be related to the MME's ability in capturing the observed linkages between SC rainfall and atmospheric large-scale circulation anomalies in the Indo-Pacific region.Further assessment of station-scale June rainfall prediction based on direct model output(DMO) over 97 stations in SC revealed that the MME mean outperforms each individual model.However,poor prediction abilities in some in-land and southeastern SC stations are apparent in the MME mean and in a number of models.In order to improve the performance at those stations with poor DMO prediction skill,a station-based statistical downscaling scheme was constructed and applied to the individual and MME mean hindcast runs.For several models,this scheme can outperform DMO at more than 30 stations,because it can tap into the abilities of the models in capturing the anomalous Indo-Paciric circulation to which SC rainfall is considerably sensitive.Therefore,enhanced rainfall prediction abilities in these models should make them more useful for disaster preparedness and mitigation purposes. |
| Keywords: | June South China rainfall multi-model ensemble prediction statistical downscaling bias correction |
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