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Precipitation Downscaling with Gibbs Sampling: An Improved Method for Producing Realistic, Weather-Dependent, and Anisotropic Fields
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2020
Source: Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(11), 2487-2505.
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Journal Title:Journal of Hydrometeorology
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Description:Downscaling precipitation fields is a necessary step in a number of applications, especially in hydrological modeling where the meteorological forcings are frequently available at too coarse resolution. In this article, we review the Gibbs sampling disaggregation model (GSDM), a stochastic downscaling technique originally proposed by Gagnon et al. The method is capable of introducing realistic, weather-dependent, and possibly anisotropic fine-scale details, while preserving the mean rain rate over the coarse-scale pixels. The main developments compared to the former version are (i) an adapted Gibbs sampling algorithm that enforces the downscaled fields to have a similar texture to that of the analysis fields, (ii) an extensive test of various meteorological predictors for controlling specific aspects of the texture such as the anisotropy and the spatial variability, and (iii) a review of the regression equations used in the model for defining the conditional distributions. A perfect-model experiment is conducted over a domain in the southeastern United States. The metrics used for verification are based on the concept of gridded, stratified variogram, which is introduced as an effective way of reproducing the abilities of human eyes for detecting differences in the field texture. Results indicate that the best overall performances are obtained with the most sophisticated, predictor-based GSDM variant. The 600-hPa wind is found to be the best year-round predictor for controlling the anisotropy. For the spatial variability, kinematic predictors such as wind shear are found to be best during the convective periods, while instability indices are more informative elsewhere.
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