Autor según el artículo: Coll J; Domonkos P; Guijarro J; Curley M; Rustemeier E; Aguilar E; Walsh S; Sweeney J

Departamento: Geografia

Autor/es de la URV: Aguilar Anfrons, Enrique Modesto / DOMONKOS, PÉTER

Palabras clave: Time-series Precipitation Ireland Inhomogeneities Homogenization Homogeneity Homer Efficiency Daily temperature Climatol Climate data Changepoint detection Central pyrenees Break detection Benchmarking Algorithms Ahops Acmant

Resumen: © 2020 Royal Meteorological Society Time series homogenization for 299 of the available precipitation records for the island of Ireland (IENet) was performed. Four modern relative homogenization methods, that is, HOMER, ACMANT, CLIMATOL and AHOPS were applied to this network of station series where contiguous intact monthly records range from 30 to 70 years within the base period 1941–2010. Break detection results are compared between homogenization methods, and coincidences with available documentary information (metadata) were analysed. The lowest (highest) number of breaks were detected with HOMER (ACMANT). Large differences of break frequency were found, namely ACMANT and AHOPS detected 8 times as many breaks than HOMER, while the break frequency with CLIMATOL was intermediate. Also, the ratio of series classified to be homogeneous varies widely between the methods. It is 85% with HOMER, 60% with CLIMATOL, 31% with AHOPS, while only 22% with ACMANT. In a further experiment, all the available time series for Ireland and Northern Ireland, (910 series) were used with ACMANT and CLIMATOL to explore the stability of break frequency for the same 299 series examined in the base experiment. While overall break frequency slightly increased (by 6–13%), the break positions notably changed for individual time series. The number of breaks changed for 59% (23%) of the series with ACMANT (CLIMATOL). For the breaks detected coincidentally by at least three methods including ACMANT and CLIMATOL in the base experiment, the second experiment confirmed the break positions in 86–87% of the breaks. The consequences of these results in relation to the reliability of statistical homogenization are discussed. Sometimes markedly different step functions provide comparable good approaches. However, the accuracy of homogenized time series cannot be related directly to the instability of break detection results.

Grupo de investigación: Centre en Canvi Climàtic (C3)

Áreas temáticas: Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Meteorology & atmospheric sciences Interdisciplinar Geociências Engenharias iii Engenharias i Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biodiversidade Atmospheric science

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 08998418

Direcció de correo del autor: enric.aguilar@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-8384-377X

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-22

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.6575

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: International Journal Of Climatology. 40 (14): 6169-6188

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Coll J; Domonkos P; Guijarro J; Curley M; Rustemeier E; Aguilar E; Walsh S; Sweeney J (2020). Application of homogenization methods for Ireland's monthly precipitation records: Comparison of break detection results. International Journal Of Climatology, 40(14), 6169-6188. DOI: 10.1002/joc.6575

DOI del artículo: 10.1002/joc.6575

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2020

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications