A Comparison of Precipitation Downscaling Procedures

Funding Opportunity Number: R16AC00024 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and DevelopmentCFDA Number: 15.560Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: DOI-BORClosing Date: Feb 23, 2016Award Ceiling: $123,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Feb 09, 2016Funding Opportunity Description: In relatively small basins with arid climates, rainfall characteristics are highly variable andstream flow is tightly coupled with the nuances of rainfall events (e.g. hourly precipitationpatterns). Reclamation’s climate change assessments in these basins typically employ CMIP5projections downscaled with Bias Corrected Statistical Downscaling and BiasCorrection/Constructed Analogs (BCSD-BCCA) methods, but these products do not always meetmanagement needs. This project, funded through Reclamation’s Science and Technology GrantProgram, consists of a rigorous comparison of the BCSD-BCCA methods with alternativeapproaches to guide Reclamation staff directed to incorporate climate change impacts intohydrologic studies. These include rainfall output from dynamical downscaled Regional ClimateModels (RCM), a stochastic rainfall generator forced by either Global Climate Models (GCM) orRCM, and projections using historical records conditioned on either GCM ...
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