Distributional Validation of Precipitation Data Products with Spatially Varying Mixture Models

Lynsie R. Warr (), Matthew J. Heaton (), William F. Christensen (), Philip A. White () and Summer B. Rupper ()
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Lynsie R. Warr: University of California Irvine
Matthew J. Heaton: Brigham Young University
William F. Christensen: Brigham Young University
Philip A. White: Brigham Young University
Summer B. Rupper: The University of Utah

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 2023, vol. 28, issue 1, No 7, 99-116

Abstract: Abstract The high mountain regions of Asia contain more glacial ice than anywhere on the planet outside of the polar regions. Because of the large population living in the Indus watershed region who are reliant on melt from these glaciers for fresh water, understanding the factors that affect glacial melt along with the impacts of climate change on the region is important for managing these natural resources. While there are multiple climate data products (e.g., reanalysis and global climate models) available to study the impact of climate change on this region, each product will have a different amount of skill in projecting a given climate variable, such as precipitation. In this research, we develop a spatially varying mixture model to compare the distribution of precipitation in the High Mountain Asia region as produced by climate models with the corresponding distribution from in situ observations from the Asian Precipitation—Highly Resolved Observational Data Integration Towards Evaluation (APHRODITE) data product. Parameter estimation is carried out via a computationally efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. Each of the estimated climate distributions from each climate data product is then validated against APHRODITE using a spatially varying Kullback–Leibler divergence measure. Supplementary materials accompanying this paper appear online.

Keywords: High Mountain Asia; Latent Variables; Data Augmentation; Ordered Categorical Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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