Article
 

A mathematical framework for analysis of water tracers: Part 1: Development of theory and application to the preindustrial mean state

Público Deposited

Contenido Descargable

Descargar PDF
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/tq57ns84t

Descriptions

Attribute NameValues
Creator
Abstract
  • A new matrix operator framework is developed to analyze results from climate modeling studies that employ numerical water tracers (WTs), which track the movement of water in the aerial hydrological cycle from evaporation to precipitation. Model WT output is related to the fundamental equation of hydrology, and the moisture flux divergence is subdivided into the divergence of locally evaporated moisture and the convergence of remotely evaporated moisture. The formulation also separates locally and remotely sourced precipitation. The remote contribution (also the remote moisture convergence) may be further subdivided into zonal, meridional, intrabasin, and interbasin parts. This framework is applied to the preindustrial climate as simulated by a global climate model in which water has been tagged in 10° latitude bands in each of the major ocean basins, and in which each major land mass has been tagged separately. New insights from the method reveal fundamental differences between the major ocean basins in locally sourced precipitation, remotely sourced precipitation, and their relative partitioning. Per unit area, the subtropical Atlantic is the largest global moisture source, providing precipitable water to adjacent land areas and to the eastern Pacific tropics while retaining the least for in situ precipitation. Subtropical moisture is least divergent over the Pacific, which is the smallest moisture source (per unit area) for global land areas. Basins also differ in how subtropical moisture is partitioned between tropical, midlatitude, and land regions. Part II will apply this framework to hydrological cycle perturbations due to CO₂ doubling.
  • Keywords: linear algebra, numerical water tracers, hydrologic cycle, big data analysis, matrix operator
  • Keywords: linear algebra, numerical water tracers, hydrologic cycle, big data analysis, matrix operator
License
Resource Type
DOI
Fecha Disponible
Fecha de Emisión
Citation
  • Singh, H. A., Bitz, C. M., Nusbaumer, J., & Noone, D. C. (2016). A mathematical framework for analysis of water tracers: Part 1. Development of theory and application to the preindustrial mean state. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8(2), 991-1013. doi:10.1002/2016MS000649
Journal Title
Journal Volume
  • 8
Journal Issue/Number
  • 2
Declaración de derechos
Funding Statement (additional comments about funding)
  • H.K.A.S. acknowledges the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for graduate funding and National Science Foundation grant PLR-1341497 for postdoctoral funding; and thanks colleagues Dennis Hartmann, Chris Bretherton, and David Battisti for helpful discussions and critiques. C.M.B. is grateful for funding from the National Science Foundation through grant PLR-1341497. J.N. and D.N. were supported by the NSF Paleoclimate program (AGS-1049104) and Climate and Large-Scale Dynamic program as part of a Faculty Early Career Development award (AGS-0955841 and AGS). All authors acknowledge high-performance computing support from Yellowstone (ark:/85065/d72d3xhc) provided by NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, sponsored by the NSF.
Publisher
Peer Reviewed
Language
Replaces

Relaciones

Parents:

This work has no parents.

Elementos

Miniatura Título Fecha de subida Visibilidad Acciones
file details SinghMathematicalFrameworkAnalysis.pdf 2017-07-26 Público Descargar