dc.contributor |
Háskóli Íslands |
dc.contributor |
University of Iceland |
dc.contributor.author |
Mackay, Jonathan D. |
dc.contributor.author |
Barrand, Nicholas E. |
dc.contributor.author |
Hannah, David M. |
dc.contributor.author |
Krause, Stefan |
dc.contributor.author |
Jackson, Christopher R. |
dc.contributor.author |
Everest, Jez |
dc.contributor.author |
Adalgeirsdottir, Gudfinna |
dc.date.accessioned |
2018-08-29T13:58:21Z |
dc.date.available |
2018-08-29T13:58:21Z |
dc.date.issued |
2018-07-06 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Mackay, J. D., Barrand, N. E., Hannah, D. M., Krause, S., Jackson, C. R., Everest, J., and Aðalgeirsdóttir, G.: Glacio-hydrological melt and run-off modelling: application of a limits of acceptability framework for model comparison and selection, The Cryosphere, 12, 2175-2210, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2175-2018, 2018. |
dc.identifier.issn |
1994-0416 |
dc.identifier.issn |
1994-0424 (eISSN) |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/817 |
dc.description.abstract |
Glacio-hydrological models (GHMs) allow us to develop an understanding of how future climate change will affect river flow regimes in glaciated watersheds. A variety of simplified GHM structures and parameterisations exist, yet the performance of these are rarely quantified at the process level or with metrics beyond global summary statistics. A fuller understanding of the deficiencies in competing model structures and parameterisations and the ability of models to simulate physical processes require performance metrics utilising the full range of uncertainty information within input observations. Here, the glacio-hydrological characteristics of the Virkisá River basin in southern Iceland are characterised using 33 signatures derived from observations of ice melt, snow coverage and river discharge. The uncertainty of each set of observations is harnessed to define the limits of acceptability (LOA), a set of criteria used to objectively evaluate the acceptability of different GHM structures and parameterisations. This framework is used to compare and diagnose deficiencies in three melt and three run-off-routing model structures. Increased model complexity is shown to improve acceptability when evaluated against specific signatures but does not always result in better consistency across all signatures, emphasising the difficulty in appropriate model selection and the need for multi-model prediction approaches to account for model selection uncertainty. Melt and run-off-routing structures demonstrate a hierarchy of influence on river discharge signatures with melt model structure having the most influence on discharge hydrograph seasonality and run-off-routing structure on shorter-timescale discharge events. None of the tested GHM structural configurations returned acceptable simulations across the full population of signatures. The framework outlined here provides a comprehensive and rigorous assessment tool for evaluating the acceptability of different GHM process hypotheses. Future melt and run-off model forecasts should seek to diagnose structural model deficiencies and evaluate diagnostic signatures of system behaviour using a LOA framework. |
dc.description.sponsorship |
This work was supported by a NERC studentship
awarded to JDM via the Central England NERC Training
Alliance (CENTA). The authors’ acknowledge the support of
Joaquin Maria Munoz Cobo Belart (University of Iceland) for
providing the 1988 ice DEM of Öræfajökull as well as Andrew
Black (University of Dundee) and Lee Jones (British Geological
Survey) for providing the river discharge and terrestrial lidar data
used in this study. We would also like to acknowledge the useful
discussions with Jim Freer and Gemma Coxon (University of
Bristol) regarding the implementation of the limits of acceptability
framework. Finally, we acknowledge the assistance given by
Heiko Buxel (British Geological Survey) in collecting the on-ice
temperature measurements. Jonathan D. Mackay, Christopher
R. Jackson and Jez Everest publish with the permission of the
Executive Director of the British Geological Survey. |
dc.format.extent |
2175-2210 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
Copernicus GmbH |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
The Cryosphere;12(7) |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Jöklafræði |
dc.subject |
Loftslagsbreytingar |
dc.subject |
Straumvötn |
dc.subject |
Bráðnun (jöklafræði) |
dc.title |
Glacio-hydrological melt and run-off modelling: application of a limits of acceptability framework for model comparison and selection |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dcterms.license |
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. |
dc.description.version |
Peer Reviewed |
dc.identifier.journal |
The Cryosphere |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.5194/tc-12-2175-2018 |
dc.contributor.department |
Jarðvísindastofnun (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.department |
Institute of Earth Sciences (UI) |
dc.contributor.school |
Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) |