Projecting future drought in mediterranean forests: bias correction of climate models matters!

Autor: Julien Ruffault, Fabien Goge, Florent Mouillot, Nicolas Martin-StPaul, Carole Duffet
Přispěvatelé: Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (ESE), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This work is a contribution to the UE 7th FP Env.1.3.1.1 FUME 'Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world', grant agreement no. 243888. A doctoral research grant was provided to JR by the Languedoc-Roussillon region, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the ANR project SCION (no. ANR-09-PEXT-006) and a postdoctoral grant to CD by the ANR project MESOEROS (grant agreement no. ANR-06-VULN-012). A postdoctoral grant to NKM-SP was provided by the HUMBOLDT project, which is part of the GIS Climate-Environment-Society consortium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Springer Verlag, 2014, 117 (1-2), pp.113-122. ⟨10.1007/s00704-013-0992-z⟩
ISSN: 0177-798X
1434-4483
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0992-z⟩
Popis: International audience; Global and regional climate models (GCM and RCM) are generally biased and cannot be used as forcing variables in ecological impact models without some form of prior bias correction. In this study, we investigated the influence of the bias correction method on drought projections in Mediterranean forests in southern France for the end of the twenty-first century (2071-2100). We used a water balance model with two different atmospheric climate forcings built from the same RCM simulations but using two different correction methods (quantile mapping or anomaly method). Drought, defined here as periods when vegetation functioning is affected by water deficit, was described in terms of intensity, duration and timing. Our results showed that the choice of the bias correction method had little effects on temperature and global radiation projections. However, although both methods led to similar predictions of precipitation amount, they induced strong differences in their temporal distribution, especially during summer. These differences were amplified when the climatic data were used to force the water balance model. On average, the choice of bias correction leads to 45 % uncertainty in the predicted anomalies in drought intensity along with discrepancies in the spatial pattern of the predicted changes and changes in the year-to-year variability in drought characteristics. We conclude that the choice of a bias correction method might have a significant impact on the projections of forest response to climate change
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