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Dynamical downscaling of historical and projected
winter precipitation in the Wasatch Range (for the CI-WATER project)
Court Strong, Jim Steenburgh, Trevor AlcottUniversity of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Headwaters Project scientists: Roy Rasmussen, Kyoko Ikeda, …NCAR
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Outline• Background– The CI-WATER project– Wasatch Range precipitation
• Regional modeling using WRF– Model configuration– Historical validation for water year 2008
• Future research plans• Summary
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CI-WATER Project• Purpose is to advance cyberinfrastructure
for high performance water resource modeling
• Goal is to enhance the capacity for water resource planning and management in the Utah-Wyoming region
• Utah-Wyoming collaboration funded through the NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
• http://www.uwyo.edu/ci-water/
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CI-WATER Project• My research goals for the
Wasatch Range: – Quantify the spread and central
tendency of projected orographic precipitation to 2060 • Different global climate models• Different greenhouse gas scenarios• Different initial conditions
– Provide software that civil engineers can use to quickly generate realistic future precipitation and temperature scenarios
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CI-WATER Project: my study region
wikipedia.org
I am currently focused on the Wasatch Range, and I plan to extend the study region to include portions of Wyoming and Colorado
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Wasatch Range precipitationMountain versus valley floor annual cycles
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Wasatch Range precipitation
Mean Annual Snowfall (inches)M
ean
Annu
al S
now
fall
(inch
es)
50”
>600”
<150”
Steenburgh, unpublished
Spatial variability
Salt Lake Valley
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Wasatch Range precipitation
Yeager et al. (Submitted, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim.)
Alcott et al. (Submitted,Mon. Wea. Rev.)
Lake effect snow
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Wasatch Range precipitation
• The Large Ensemble Project– One model: CCSM3 (T42)– One forcing: A1B 2000-2061– 40 simulations
Deser et al. (submitted)
Trends in precipitation [% per 55 years] expressed as a percentage of the model’s ensemble-mean climatology for 2005-2060.
Sensitivity to initial conditions
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Regional modeling: model configuration
• The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) regional weather and climate model Version 3.3.1 (Skamarock et al. 2005)
• Configured following Headwaters Project (Rasmussen et al. 2011):– Noah land surface model– Mellor–Yamada–Janjic planetary boundary layer scheme– Community Atmosphere Model’s (CAM) longwave and
shortwave schemes– Thompson et al. (2008) cloud microphysics scheme
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Regional modeling: model configuration• Prescribed a mean annual cycle for the Great
Salt Lake surface temperature (TG) based on first harmonic of monthly median observations
36 km
12 km
4 km
€
TG = −12.1cos 2π d / 365( )− 3.8sin 2π d / 365( ) + 287.3
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Regional modeling: model configuration• Adjusted the saturation vapor pressure to
account for salinity of Great Salt Lake
36 km
12 km
4 km
Gilbert Bay 12% salinity
Gunnison Bay 28% salinity
Steenburgh et al. (2000), Mon. Wea. Rev.
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Regional modeling: model configuration
• Lambert conformal projection, three domains36 km
12 km
4 km
Boundary conditions: 6-houlry NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (38-km resolution).Water year 2007-2008
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Regional modeling: model configuration
• Resolution of topography
12 km
4 km
Cedar
StansburyOquirrh
Wasatch
Uinta
Salt Lake CitySalt Flats
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Regional modeling: historical validation WRF
Snotel
Precipitation (mm)
€
Σ WRFΣ snotel
=1.003
15 km
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Regional modeling: historical validation
WRFSnotel
Precipitation (mm)
€
Σ WRFΣ snotel
=1.302
15 km
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250-mb geopotential height 2008
28 Jan 12Z 28 Jan 18Z
29 Jan 00Z 29 Jan 06Z
NCEP / NCAR Reanalysis
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28 Jan 2008 12Z
mesowest.utah.edu
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Sites where WRF overestimated
Louis Meadow
Hardscrabble
Ben Lomand
Brighton
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Future research plans• Additional historical validation runs• Boundary force WRF with climate model
projections (CMIP5 runs)• Develop software that civil engineers can use
to quickly generate realistic future precipitation and temperature scenarios
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Future research plansSoftware will generate stochastic precipitation and temperature scenarios that
1) are consistent with downscaled climate projections
2) exhibit realistic spatial correlations among
basins
http://www.hiddenwaters.org/
Citycreek
RedButte
Emigration
Parley’sMillCreek
Neffs
Big Cottonwood
LittleCottonwood
Bells
Richardson et al. (1984)Wilks (1999)Khalili et al. (2011)
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Summary• Within CI-WATER project, my goals are – quantify the spread and central tendency of
projected Wasatch Range precipitation to 2060 – develop stochastic hydrology scenario software for
engineers• Regional modeling: first results– WRF configured following Headwaters Project– Modifications for the Great Salt Lake– Historical validation for 2008 water year:
overestimates at four sites, realistic at seven sites
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Snowfall Sensitivity
AltaBase
Mt. Baldy
PC Base
PC Top
+1°C +2°C +3°C +4°C
10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Courtesy: John Horel and Leigh Jones, Univ. of Utah
Percent of snow that will instead fall as rain with warming
AltaBase
Mt. Baldy
PC Base
PC Top
AltaBase
Mt. Baldy
PC Base
PC Top
AltaBase
Mt. Baldy
PC Base
PC Top
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Wasatch Range: temporal variability
Dettinger et al. (2011) Water