Application of a Regional Climate Model to the Yellow River Basin for Precipitation Modeling

To evaluate the change of water resources over the Yellow River basin, an examination of precipitation was carried out using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, a nest generation regional climate model over the Yellow River domain from 1980 to 1997. The results show that the inter-annual variations of precipitation could be represented compared with a dataset based on gauge record at four watersheds over Sanmenxia. The simulated precipitation at two watersheds in upper reaches is in agreement with observed values. There is underestimation at other watershed in middle reaches. The distribution of annual precipitation over the whole basin is almost reproduced. The estimated decreasing areas of precipitation between the period of 1980~1989 and 1990~1997 also agree well with the dataset.
application regional climate model the Yellow River Basin precipitation modeling
Xieyao Ma Takao Yoshikane Masayuki Hara Fujio Kimura Yoshihiro Fukushima
Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan University of Tsukuba, Japan Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan
国际会议
山东东营
英文
113-115
2007-10-16(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)