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AGU: Geophysical Research Letters

 

Index Terms

  • Global Change: Climate dynamics
  • Global Change: Regional climate change
  • Atmospheric Processes: Climate change and variability
  • Global Change: Global climate models

Abstract

Regional-scale climate change detection using a Bayesian decision method

Seung-Ki Min

Meteorologisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Andreas Hense

Meteorologisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Won-Tae Kwon

Climate Research Laboratory, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, Korea

We use Bayesian statistics for a regional climate change detection problem and show an application for the East Asian surface air temperature (SAT) field. Detection variables are constructed from a data-independent advection-diffusion model for SAT. Two scenario cases, namely a control scenario (CTL) and a CO2-induced climate change scenario (G), are derived from model integrations. The Bayesian decision process starts from prior probabilities, goes through the likelihood function where the observations enter, and finally produces posterior probabilities. We select the scenario of larger posterior probability given the observations, by which the theoretical decision error becomes a minimum. The application results for the East Asian SAT reveal strong G signals since 1990s insensitive to prior probabilities. The signal is carried on temporal scales longer than 1 year and spatial scales larger than 6000 km.

Received 15 July 2004; accepted 28 December 2004; published 10 February 2005.

Citation: Min, S.-K., A. Hense, and W.-T. Kwon (2005), Regional-scale climate change detection using a Bayesian decision method, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L03706, doi:10.1029/2004GL021028.

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