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Coupled Lake-Atmosphere-Land Physics Uncertainties in a Great Lakes Regional Climate Model
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  • William James Pringle,
  • Chenfu Huang,
  • Pengfei Xue,
  • Jiali Wang,
  • Khachik Sargsyan,
  • Miraj Bhakta Kayastha,
  • TC Chakraborty,
  • Zhao Yang,
  • Yun Qian,
  • Robert D. Hetland
William James Pringle
Argonne National Laboratory

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Chenfu Huang
Michigan Tech
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Pengfei Xue
Michigan Tech
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Jiali Wang
Argonne National Laboratory (DOE)
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Khachik Sargsyan
Sandia National Laboratories
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Miraj Bhakta Kayastha
Michigan Technological University
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TC Chakraborty
Pacific Northwest National Lab
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Zhao Yang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Yun Qian
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
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Robert D. Hetland
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Abstract

This study develops a surrogate-based method to assess the uncertainty within a convective permitting integrated modeling system of the Great Lakes region, arising from interacting physics parameterizations across the lake, atmosphere, and land surface. Perturbed physics ensembles of the model during the 2018 summer are used to train a neural network surrogate model to predict lake surface temperature (LST) and near-surface air temperature (T2m). Average physics uncertainties are determined to be 1.5°C for LST and T2m over land, and 1.9°C for T2m over lake, but these have significant spatiotemporal variations. We find that atmospheric physics parameterizations are the dominant sources of uncertainty for both LST and T2m, and there is a substantial atmosphere-lake physics interaction component. LST and T2m over the lake are more uncertain in the deeper northern lakes, particularly during the rapid warming phase that occurs in late spring/early summer. The LST uncertainty increases with sensitivity to the lake model’s surface wind stress scheme. T2m over land is more uncertain over forested areas in the north, where it is most sensitive to the land surface model, than the more agricultural land in the south, where it is most sensitive to the atmospheric planetary boundary and surface layer scheme. Uncertainty also increases in the southwest during multiday temperature declines with higher sensitivity to the land surface model. Last, we show that the deduced physics uncertainty of T2m is statistically smaller than a regional warming perturbation exceeding 0.5°C.
15 Mar 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
15 Mar 2024Published in ESS Open Archive