A 60-year reconstructed high-resolution local meteorological data set in Central Sahel (1950-2009): Evaluation, analysis and application to land surface modelling

Leauthaud Crystèle, Cappelaere Bernard, Demarty Jérôme, Guichard Laurence, Velluet C., Kergoat Laurent, Vischel T., Grippa Manuela, Mouhaimouni M., Bouzou Moussa Ibrahim, Mainassara I., Sultan B.. 2017. A 60-year reconstructed high-resolution local meteorological data set in Central Sahel (1950-2009): Evaluation, analysis and application to land surface modelling. International Journal of Climatology, 37 (5) : 2699-2718.

https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4874

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Quartile : Q2, Sujet : METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

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Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Géographie-Aménagement-Urbanisme-Architecture

Résumé : The Sahel has experienced strong climate variability in the past decades. Understanding its implications for natural and cultivated ecosystems is pivotal in a context of high population growth and mainly agriculture-based livelihoods. However, efforts to model processes at the land–atmosphere interface are hindered, particularly when the multi-decadal timescale is targeted, as climatic data are scarce, largely incomplete and often unreliable. This study presents the generation of a long-term, high-temporal resolution, multivariate local climatic data set for Niamey, Central Sahel. The continuous series spans the period 1950–2009 at a 30-min timescale and includes ground station-based meteorological variables (precipitation, air temperature, relative and specific humidity, air pressure, wind speed, downwelling long- and short-wave radiation) as well as process-modelled surface fluxes (upwelling long- and short-wave radiation, latent, sensible and soil heat fluxes and surface temperature). A combination of complementary techniques (linear/spline regressions, a multivariate analogue method, artificial neural networks and recursive gap filling) was used to reconstruct missing meteorological data. The complete surface energy budget was then obtained for two dominant land cover types, fallow bush and millet, by applying the meteorological forcing data set to a finely field-calibrated land surface model. Uncertainty in reconstructed data was expressed by means of a stochastic ensemble of plausible historical time series. Climatological statistics were computed at sub-daily to decadal timescales and compared with local, regional and global data sets such as CRU and ERA-Interim. The reconstructed precipitation statistics, ∼1 °C increase in mean annual temperature from 1950 to 2009, and mean diurnal and annual cycles for all variables were in good agreement with previous studies. The new data set, denoted NAD (Niamey Airport-derived set) and publicly available, can be used to investigate the water and energy cycles in Central Sahel, while the methodology can be applied to reconstruct series at other stations.

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Sahel

Mots-clés libres : Niamey airport station, ERA-40, ERA-Interim, CRU, Fallow savannah, Millet, Gap filling, Synoptic data

Classification Agris : P40 - Météorologie et climatologie

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 6 (2014-2018) - Sociétés, natures et territoires

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