Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 22
Articles | Volume 17, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8173-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8173-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 22
Development and technical paper
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19 Nov 2024
Development and technical paper |  | 19 Nov 2024

Robust handling of extremes in quantile mapping – “Murder your darlings”

Peter Berg, Thomas Bosshard, Denica Bozhinova, Lars Bärring, Joakim Löw, Carolina Nilsson, Gustav Strandberg, Johan Södling, Johan Thuresson, Renate Wilcke, and Wei Yang

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When bias adjusting climate model data using quantile mapping, one needs to prescribe what to do at the tails of the distribution, where a larger data range is likely encountered outside of the calibration period. The end result is highly dependent on the method used. We show that, to avoid discontinuities in the time series, one needs to exclude data in the calibration range to also activate the extrapolation functionality in that time period.
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