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Title: | Evaluation of machine learning tools as a statistical downscaling tool : temperatures projections for multi-stations for Thames River Basin, Canada | Authors: | Burn, Donald H. Ojha, C. S. P. Goyal, Manish Kumar |
Issue Date: | 2011 | Source: | Goyal, M. K., Burn, D. H., & Ojha, C. S. P. (2012). Evaluation of machine learning tools as a statistical downscaling tool: temperatures projections for multi-stations for Thames River Basin, Canada. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 108(3-4), 519-534. | Series/Report no.: | Theoretical and applied climatology | Abstract: | Many impact studies require climate change information at a finer resolution than that provided by global climate models (GCMs). This paper investigates the performances of existing state-of-the-art rule induction and tree algorithms, namely single conjunctive rule learner, decision table, M5 model tree, and REPTree, and explores the impact of climate change on maximum and minimum temperatures (i.e., predictands) of 14 meteorological stations in the Upper Thames River Basin, Ontario, Canada. The data used for evaluation were large-scale predictor variables, extracted from National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research reanalysis dataset and the simulations from third generation Canadian coupled global climate model. Data for four grid points covering the study region were used for developing the downscaling model. M5 model tree algorithm was found to yield better performance among all other learning techniques explored in the present study. Hence, this technique was applied to project predictands generated from GCM using three scenarios (A1B, A2, and B1) for the periods (2046–2065 and 2081–2100). A simple multiplicative shift was used for correcting predictand values. The potential of the downscaling models in simulating predictands was evaluated, and downscaling results reveal that the proposed downscaling model can reproduce local daily predictands from large-scale weather variables. Trend of projected maximum and minimum temperatures was studied for historical as well as downscaled values using GCM and scenario uncertainty. There is likely an increasing trend for T max and T min for A1B, A2, and B1 scenarios while decreasing trend has been observed for B1 scenarios during 2081–2100. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97526 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11866 |
ISSN: | 0177-798X | DOI: | 10.1007/s00704-011-0546-1 | Schools: | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Rights: | © 2011 Springer-Verlag. | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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