用深度学习融合气候模型变异,提升欧洲干旱预测的可靠性。
Probabilistic Deep Learning for Drought Forecasting: Role of Internal Climate Variability

- 构建基于深度学习的干旱预测框架,显式纳入气候模型集合中的内部变率。
- 在异常干旱时期,新方法比仅依赖历史数据的下界更准确地评估极端干旱风险。
- 适合气候适应规划者使用,提供保守且物理合理的干旱风险参考。
预测干旱风险对水资源、农业、生态系统和气候适应规划至关重要。然而,由于内部气候变率会显著改变区域降水和蒸发需求,干旱预测仍存在不确定性。若将这种变率视为无结构噪声,会忽略其空间、季节和时间上的结构性特征,而这些特征蕴含可提升预测能力的信息。本文提出一种基于深度学习的欧洲干旱预测框架,并引入一种考虑气候模型大规模集合中内部变率的不确定性感知干旱边界。该边界代表未来干旱条件可能达到的物理上合理的最差情景,为适应规划提供保守的风险参考。与仅基于再分析数据推导的下界相比,本方法在多数地区和季节中校准更优,尤其在异常干旱条件下,传统方法会低估极端干旱风险。结果表明,内部变率应被视为独立的预报量。大型集合为将物理上合理的气候变率融入机器学习干旱预测提供了实用途径,生成更适用于气候变化背景下的风险评估信息。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Predicting drought risk is essential for anticipating impacts on water resources, agriculture, ecosystems, and climate adaptation planning. Yet drought forecasts remain uncertain because variability can substantially alter regional precipitation and evaporative demand. Treating this variability as unstructured noise ignores the fact that internal variability has spatial, seasonal, and temporal structure and thus contains information that can be used to improve drought forecasting. We propose a deep-learning-based forecasting framework for European drought prediction and extend it with an uncertainty-aware drought bound that explicitly incorporates internal forecast variability from a large climate model ensemble. This bound represents a physically plausible lower-tail trajectory of future drought conditions and marks how severe drought could plausibly become under an unfavourable realisation of internal variability, giving adaptation planning a conservative, risk-averse reference. We compare the proposed bound with a lower bound derived from reanalysis data only and show that our proposed ensemble-informed bound is better calibrated across most regions and seasons. This is specifically true during anomalously dry conditions, when historical reanalysis alone underestimates lower-tail drought risk. Our results show that internal variability should be treated as a forecast quantity in its own right. More broadly, large ensembles provide a practical way to transfer physically plausible climate variability into machine-learning drought forecasts, yielding risk-aware bounds that are more informative for drought assessment under shifting climate conditions.
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