基于干湿期的随机天气发生器

    Stochastic weather generator based on dry and wet spells

    • 摘要: 为了按不同的应用需求生成可信的任意长序列逐日天气数据,为作物天气系统研究提供数据支持,该文描述了一个以干湿期随机模型为基础,组合了日降水量、温度和辐射变量随机模型的逐日天气发生器WGDWS(Weather Generator based on Dry and Wet Spells)。它分为两部分:以干湿期为独立随机变量的干湿期模型部分,和依赖第一种模型生成其余天气变量的模型部分;其天气要素的生成主要分2个步骤,即首先根据月经验分布值产生一个干期或湿期长度,然后生成干期或湿期的逐日值。利用代表中国不同地理区域的9个站点1973-2003年的逐日气象资料对天气发生器WGDWS进行了检验,并与基于干湿日开发的DWSS天气发生器进行了比较。结果表明两者性能基本相近,并且WGDWS模拟干湿期的效果更好。因此,WGDWS天气发生器用于生成逐日天气序列是可靠的,同时作为一个JAVA组件,还可以方便地嵌入作物模型系统。

       

      Abstract: Abstract: Climate change is important for agriculture and the environment. Changing rainfall amounts have positively or negatively impact on plant growth. The reduction in solar radiation can potentially reduce the photosynthesis, growth of plants and potential evaporation. Stochastic weather generators can generate a long series of weather variable statistics, which usually are used as the input of system models to analyze and evaluate the effect of climate on systems. This paper described a stochastic weather generator WGDWS which consisted of dry and wet spell, daily precipitation, solar radiation, and maximum and minimum temperature models. It included two types of models. The first one was a dry and wet spell model in which dry and wet spell lengths were defined as an independent stochastic variable respectively, and it was the principal model. The second one referred to other weather variables whose modeling was dependent on the first one. The generation of weather element values mainly contained two steps: generating a dry or wet spell length based on their empirical distribution in a month, and then generating the daily value of each variable in the related period. The generator could provide any length of time series of daily weather stochastic values as input data for the driving of crop models. The observed 1973 -2003 daily weather data from nine meteorological sites in different geographical region in China were used to determine model parameters of a generator in two types of generator, including WGDWS which was based on dry and wet spell and DWSS which was based on dry and wet days. After generating 100 years of daily weather variables, including total solar radiation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation, at the above nine sites with the help of WGDWS and DWSS, monthly statistics of these variables were computed. A T-test showed that there was no significant difference between the generated and observed monthly statistics for different geographical regions at the 1% significant level. The differences of generated and observed maximum temperatures under 0.3℃ accounted for 87%, and the value for minimum temperature was 93%. The absolute errors of the number of rainy days under one day was 92%,and the monthly total precipitation errors under 10mm and 15 mm were 91% and 95% respectively. The absolute errors of the monthly total radiation under 2 kJ/m2 were 89%. The K-S test was conducted to detect differences between the observed and simulated values for dry and wet spells. No significant differences were found at P=0.05. The relative deviations of monthly statistics generated by WGDWS and DWSS were compared. The relative deviations of maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and total radiation for these two kinds of models were similar. There were obvious differences in relative deviations for the number of rainy days and rainfall. In short, WGDWS had similar performance to generate meteorological data to DWSS, and its accuracy to simulate dry and wet spells and number of rainy days was higher than DWSS. The study indicated that the data generated by WGDWS could be used as input for a crop models, especially for studies on the response of crops to persistent drought and continued rainy weather.

       

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