Probabilistic Multisite Precipitation Downscaling by an Expanded Bernoulli–Gamma Density Network
- 1 December 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Hydrometeorology
- Vol. 9 (6), 1284-1300
- https://doi.org/10.1175/2008jhm960.1
Abstract
A nonlinear, probabilistic synoptic downscaling algorithm for daily precipitation series at multiple sites is presented. The expanded Bernoulli–gamma density network (EBDN) represents the conditional density of multisite precipitation, conditioned on synoptic-scale climate predictors, using an artificial neural network (ANN) whose outputs are parameters of the Bernoulli–gamma distribution. Following the methodology used in expanded downscaling, predicted covariances between sites are forced to match observed covariances through the addition of a constraint to the ANN cost function. The resulting model can be thought of as a regression-based downscaling model with a stochastic weather generator component. Parameters of the Bernoulli–gamma distribution are downscaled from the synoptic-scale circulation, and unresolved temporal variability is generated via an autoregressive noise model. Demonstrated on a multisite precipitation dataset from coastal British Columbia, Canada, the EBDN is capable of specifying the conditional distribution of precipitation at each site, modeling the occurrence and the amount of precipitation simultaneously, reproducing observed spatial relationships between sites, randomly generating realistic synthetic precipitation series, and predicting precipitation amounts in excess of those in the observational record.Keywords
This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
- Multi-site precipitation downscaling via an expanded conditional density networkNature Precedings, 2007
- Nonlinear analog predictor analysis: A coupled neural network/analog model for climate downscalingNeural Networks, 2007
- Regression-based downscaling of spatial variability for hydrologic applicationsJournal of Hydrology, 2005
- Seasonal climate and variability of the ECMWF ERA-40 modelClimate Dynamics, 2004
- Selected precipitation scenarios across EuropeJournal of Hydrology, 2002
- Synoptic Map-Pattern Classification Using Recursive Partitioning and Principal Component AnalysisMonthly Weather Review, 2002
- Downscaling recent streamflow conditions in British Columbia, Canada using ensemble neural network modelsJournal of Hydrology, 2002
- Multisite simulation of daily precipitation and temperature in the Rhine Basin by nearest‐neighbor resamplingWater Resources Research, 2001
- Multitask LearningMachine Learning, 1997
- Expanded downscaling for generating local weather scenariosClimate Research, 1996