Abstract

The Eastern Monsoon Region of China is sensitive to climate change because of its special location. In this study, the Automated Statistical Downscaling (ASD) tool was used to simulate and project future climate change scenarios in different temperate zones in the Eastern Monsoon Region of China. The performances of the single General Circulation Model (GCM) and the GCMs ensemble from Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) were compared, and the capability of the ASD model was evaluated. The simple mathematical averaging ensemble of GCMs is superior to the single GCM and to the other two weighted ensembles. The ASD model was capable of presenting the temporal and spatial variation of four variables (precipitation, mean air temperature, maximum and minimum air temperature) during both the calibration and validation periods. The performance of the ASD model varied among the different temperate zones. In the simulated future scenarios, the air temperature in the four zones showed an upward trend. Except for the subtropical zone, there was a tendency for increased precipitation in both the warm temperate zone and the cold temperate and middle temperate zones. Of particular interest is that, in the subtropical zone, the precipitation will decline in the future, whereas the air temperature (especially the maximum air temperature) will increase, which may put more pressure on water resource situations in this area.

Highlights

  • According to the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is no doubt that the temperature has increased during the past century

  • Table 1; number 20 represents the General Circulation Model (GCM) ensemble using a simple mathematical average method; The number ranging from 1 to 19 on the X-axis stands for the different GCMs listed in Table 1; number and numbers 21 and 22 represent the weighted GCMs ensembles based on the skill scores S1 and S2

  • The GCMs ensembles are consistently superior to single models, and the simple

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Introduction

According to the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is no doubt that the temperature has increased during the past century. The General Circulation Models (GCMs) are often employed to simulate global and regional climate systems. Such models can only provide information at a coarse resolution [2,3], which cannot be used directly in regional hydrological modelling [4,5].

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