basin-scale runoff prediction: an ensemble kalman filter ...€¦ · prof. dr. harald kunstmann nse...
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INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH, ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, IMK-IFU
REGIONAL CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY
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Basin-scale runoff prediction: an Ensemble Kalman Filter framework based on
global hydrometeorological datasets
1 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 2. University of Stuttgart, Institute of Geodesy, Stuttgart, Germany
3. University of Hannover, Institute of Geodesy, Hannover, Germany 4. University of Augsburg, Institute of Geography, Regional Climate and Hydrology, Augsburg, Germany
Christof Lorenz1, Mohammad J. Tourian2, Balaji Devaraju3, Nico Sneeuw2, Harald Kunstmann1,4
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gauged
ungauged
dischargeless
Catchments with limited (< 5 yrs) runoff observations after 2002 • cover an area of more than 11,500,000 km2! • freshwater discharge of more than 125,000 m3/s! Dai & Trenberth (2002):
Annual runoff rate over unmonitored areas equals annual runoff rate over monitored areas!
Decrease in the number of in situ observations
Lorenz et al. (2014), JHM
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Estimation through water budgets?
• Can be applied globally • Does not require, e.g., in situ runoff • Not restricted to the basin scale • Anthropogenic changes do not matter! • Biases might (!!!) cancel out
• Only as good as the „worst“ input • Error propagation • Temporal/spatial resolution
PROS: CONS:
Terrestrial
𝑅 = 𝑃 − 𝐸𝑇 −𝑑𝑆
𝑑𝑡
Atmospheric-terrestrial
𝑅 = −𝛻𝑸 −𝑑𝑆
𝑑𝑡
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Hydrometeorological datasets
Variable Dataset Version Resolution Time-period
Spatial Temporal
P GPCC 6.0 0.5° x 0.5° 1 month 1901 - 2010
GPCP 2.2 2.5° x 2.5° 1 month 1979 - present
CRU 3.22 0.5° x 0.5° 1 month 1901 - 2013
DEL 3.02 0.5° x 0.5° 1 month 1900 - 2010
CPC 1.0 0.25° x 0.25° 1 month 1979 – present*
ET ERA Interim - 0.75° x 0.75° 1 month, 1day, 6h 1979 - present
GLDAS NOAH 3.3 1.0° x 1.0° 1 month, 3h 1948 - present
GLEAM v1B 0.25° x 0.25° 1 day 1984 - 2008
MOD16 A2 0.5° x 0.5° 1 year, 1 month, 8 days 2000 - 2013
Fluxnet MTE - 0.5° x 0.5° 1 month 1980 - present
MERRA Land - 1/2° x 2/3°
dS/dt GRACE CSR R5 - 1 month 2002 – present*
GRACE GFZ R5 - 1 month 2002 – present*
MERRA Land 1.0 1/2° x 2/3° 1 month, 1 day, 1h 1980 - present
GLDAS NOAH 3.3 1.0° x 1.0° 1 month, 3h 1948 - present
WGHM NOUSE 0.5° x 0.5° 1 month 1960 - 2009
Robs GRDC - - -
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Water budgets are not closed
P (GPCC) – ET (MODIS) – dS/dt (GRACE) – R (GRDC)
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Evaluation of the basin-scale water budget closure from 90 combinations of state-of-the-art datasets
for precipitation, evapotranspiration, and water storage changes.
Large residuals in the long-term water budgets
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Some agreement with observations...
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Correlation w.r.t. GRDC
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Lorenz et al. (2014), JHM
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...but not enough for reasonable predictions
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NSE w.r.t. GRDC
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Can we improve these combinations?
Lorenz et al. (2014), JHM
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• Simple and straightforward maths
• Framework based on an EnKF
• Purely data-driven
• Exploit the joint inter- and intra-catchment auto and cross covariances between the four major water cycle variables through LS-prediction
• Application of a constrained EnKF for ensuring water budget closure
Empirical hydrological model which is based on hydrometeorological data and their statistical
dependencies.
Development of a data-merging approach for the consistent combination, correction, and prediction of basin-scale water cycle
variables:
Cornerstones of the approach
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Tourian et al. (2013), WRR
Derivation of the observation equation
• State 𝑋𝑡 with water cycle variables of the study • Observations and uncertainties from global datasets
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Unconstrained vs. Constrained correction
Unconstrained observation equation
𝒀𝑡 = 𝑯𝑡𝑿𝑡 + 𝝂𝑡
Constrained observation equation
𝒀𝑡𝟎
=𝑯𝑡
𝑮𝑿𝑡 +
𝝂𝑡𝝎𝑡
with 𝑮 = 𝑰 −𝑰 −𝑰 −𝑰
𝟎 = 𝑷𝒕 − 𝑬𝑻𝒕 −𝑴 𝒕 −𝑹𝒕 +𝝎𝑡
1. Hard constraints: 𝝎𝑡 = 𝟎 water budgets are closed
2. Soft constraints: 𝝎𝑡 ~ 𝓝 𝟎,𝑸𝑤𝑏 small imbalances are allowed
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Derivation of the prediction equation
Anomalies at time-step 𝑡
𝒓𝑡 = 𝑿𝑡 − 𝑿 𝑡
with 𝑋 𝑡 being the long-term mean annual cycle.
Auto- and cross-covariance of the water cycle variables
𝚺 = 𝐷 𝒓𝑡 , 𝒓𝑡 , 𝚺Δ = 𝐷 𝒓𝑡 , 𝒓𝑡−1
Prediction of the anomalies from 𝑡 − 1 to 𝑡
𝒓𝑡 = 𝑨𝒓𝑡−1 + 𝜺𝑡 with 𝑨 = 𝚺Δ𝚺−1
Prediction of the „full“ signal
𝑿𝑡 = 𝑨𝑿𝑡−1 + −𝑨 𝑰𝑿 𝑡−1𝑿 𝑡
+ 𝜺𝑡
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• Study comprises 29 large river-basins like, e.g., Amazon, Mississippi, Ob, Mackenzie, ...
• Prediction of monthly runoff for 16 basins (blue)
• Compare runoff predictions against monthly observations from the GRDC-database
Overview of the study regions
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Performance of the EnKF-approach
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Performance of the EnKF-approach
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Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), hard and soft Constrained Ensemble Kalman Filter (CEnKFh, CEnKFs), Ensemble Kalman Smoother (EnKS), and hard and soft Constrained
Ensemble Kalman Smoother (CEnKSh, CEnKSs)
Lorenz et al. (2015), WRR
Performance of the different configurations
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Full Signal Anomalies (w.r.t. MAC)
• Very good agreement of both the full signal and the runoff anomalies • Shorter and longer term deviations from the mean annual cycle of runoff are well
represented in the predicted time-series • However: Problems in the representation of extremes
Exemplary time-series
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Conclusions
Decrease in the number of rain- and river-gauges
Large imbalances in the catchment-scale water budgets
Analysis of an intensification of the water cycle or water budget
studies not possible
Urgent need for alternative approaches for
estimating/predicting/correcting our data sources for the water cycle
variables
EnKF-based framework for predicting basin-scale runoff
Very good agreement with monthly runoff observations
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Thank you for your attention.
Outlook
Representation of Extremes?
Application to climate models (CMIP5-ensemble)
Prediction for other catchments
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