Process-informed subsampling improves subseasonal rainfall forecasts in Central America
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| Autores: | , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2024 |
| Descripción: | Subseasonal rainfall forecast skill is critical to support preparedness for hydrometeorological extremes. We assess how a process-informed evaluation, which subsamples forecasting model members based on their ability to represent potential predictors of rainfall, can improve monthly rainfall forecasts within Central America in the following month, using Costa Rica and Guatemala as test cases. We generate a constrained ensemble mean by subsampling 130 members from five dynamic forecasting models in the C3S multimodel ensemble based on their representation of both (a) zonal wind direction and (b) Pacific and Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SSTs), at the time of initialization. Our results show in multiple months and locations increased mean squared error skill by 0.4 and improved detection rates of rainfall extremes. This method is transferrable to other regions driven by slowly-changing processes. Process-informed subsampling is successful because it identifies members that fail to represent the entire rainfall distribution when wind/SST error increases. |
| País: | Kérwá |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Kérwá |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/100547 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL105891 https://hdl.handle.net/10669/100547 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105891 |
| Palabra clave: | rainfall forecast Central America subseasonal extreme weather ensemble |