• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.255-255
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• 2020

아프리카 대륙에서 존재하는 가장 큰 사하라 사막(Sahara desert)의 면적은 지난 1세기 동안 기후변화로 인하여 10% 정도 증가하였고, 미래에도 기온상승으로 인하여 증가할 것으로 판단된다. 사하라 사막 면적의 증가로 인하여 아프리카의 자연식생과 수자원뿐만 아니라 아프리카에 거주하는 사람들의 삶에 많은 영향을 미치기에 사막의 면적 또는 경계선의 위치를 예측함은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5)의 36개 Global Climate Models (GCMs)과 ERA-interim 재분석 자료의 1979~2000년 강수 자료들을 이용하여 사헬(Sahel) 지대 서쪽(15W~15E, 10N~20N)과 동쪽(15E~35E, 10N~20N)의 강수량과 사막경계선을 비교하였다. 또한, 각 모델의 과거 모의 성능을 평가하여 미래 기후 예측성을 판단하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 22년 평균 강수량이 200mm 이하인 지역을 사막이라 정의하고, 모델별로 연평균 강수량과 사막경계선에 대한 root mean square error(RMSE)를 산정하여 평가하였다. 또한, 습윤 정적 에너지(Moist. Static Energy; MSE), 바람(풍속 및 풍향) 자료를 이용하여 각 모델의 사막경계선의 오차에 대한 이유를 분석하였다. 이 연구를 바탕으로 하여 사헬 지대의 강수량 및 사막면적 모의의 불확실성 요소를 이해하고, 미래 상세 지역 수문기후 변화 예측에 활용 가능한 GCMs을 선별할 수 있을 것으로 판단한다.

• Atmosphere
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.87-103
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• 2019

This study introduces the overall characteristics of LOVECLIM version 1.3, the earth system model of intermediate complexity (EMIC), including the installation and operation processes by conducting two kinds of past climate simulation. First climate simulation is the equilibrium experiment during the mid-Holocene (6,000 BP), when orbital parameters were different compared to those at present. The overall accuracy of simulated global atmospheric fields by LOVECLIM is relatively lower than that in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) and Paleoclimate modelling Intercomparison Project phase 3 (PMIP3) simulations. However, surface temperature over the globe, the 800 hPa meridional wind over the mid-latitude coastal region, and the 200 hPa zonal wind from LOVECLIM show similar spatial distribution to those multi-model mean of CMIP5/PMIP3 climate models. Second one is the transient climate experiment from mid-Holocene to present. LOVECLIM well captures the major differences in surface temperature between preindustrial and mid-Holocene simulations by CMIP5/PMIP3 multi-model mean, even though it was performed with short integration time (i.e., about four days in a single CPU environment). In this way, although the earth system model of intermediate complexity has a limit due to its relatively low accuracy, it can be a very useful tool in the specific research area such as paleoclimate.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.64 no.1
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• pp.39-50
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• 2022

In this study, we suggested the optimal training period for predicting the streamflow using the LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) model based on the deep learning and CMIP5 (The fifth phase of the Couple Model Intercomparison Project) future climate scenarios. To validate the model performance of LSTM, the Jinan-gun (Seongsan-ri) site was selected in this study. We comfirmed that the LSTM-based streamflow was highly comparable to the measurements during the calibration (2000 to 2002/2014 to 2015) and validation (2003 to 2005/2016 to 2017) periods. Additionally, we compared the LSTM-based streamflow to the SWAT-based output during the calibration (2000~2015) and validation (2016~2019) periods. The results supported that the LSTM model also performed well in simulating streamflow during the long-term period, although small uncertainties exist. Then the SWAT-based daily streamflow was forecasted using the CMIP5 climate scenario forcing data in 2011~2100. We tested and determined the optimal training period for the LSTM model by comparing the LSTM-/SWAT-based streamflow with various scenarios. Note that the SWAT-based streamflow values were assumed as the observation because of no measurements in future (2011~2100). Our results showed that the LSTM-based streamflow was similar to the SWAT-based streamflow when the training data over the 30 years were used. These findings indicated that training periods more than 30 years were required to obtain LSTM-based reliable streamflow forecasts using climate change scenarios.

• Atmosphere
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.377-387
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• 2013

Projections of changes in the low latitude atmospheric circulation under global warming are investigated using the results of the CMIP5 ensemble mean. For this purpose, 30-yr periods for the present day (1971~2000) and the end of the $21^{st}$ century (2071~2100) according to the RCP emission scenarios are compared. The wintertime subtropical jet is projected to strengthen on the upper side of the jet due to increase in meridional temperature gradient induced by warming in the tropical upper-troposphere and cooling in the stratosphere except for the RCP2.6. It is also found that a strengthening of the upper side of the wintertime subtropical jet in the RCP2.6 due to tropical upper-tropospheric warmings. Model-based projection shows a weakening of the mean intensity of the Hadley cell, an upward shift of cell, and poleward shift of the Hadley circulation for the winter cell in both hemispheres. A weakening of the Walker circulation, which is one of the most robust atmospheric responses to global warming, is also projected. These results are consistent with findings in the previous studies based on CMIP3 data sets. A weakening of the Walker circulation is accompanied with decrease (increase) in precipitation over the Indo-Pacific warm pool region (the equatorial central and east Pacific). In addition, model simulation shows a decrease in precipitation over subtropical regions where the descending branch of the winter Hadley cell in both hemispheres is strengthened.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.127-127
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• 2020

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.47 no.11
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• pp.1039-1050
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• 2014

The goal of this study is to demonstrate the diversity of model performance for various climatic elements and indicators. We evaluated the skills of the most advanced 17 General Circulation Models (GCMs) i.e., CMIP5 (Climate Model Inter-comparison project, phase 5) climate models in reproducing retrospective climatology from 1950 to 2000 over the Southeast US for the key climatic elements important in the hydrological and agricultural perspectives (i.e., precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature, and wind speed). The biases of raw CMIP5 GCMs were estimated for 16 different climatic indicators that imply mean climatology, temporal variability, extreme frequency, etc. using a grid-based observational dataset as reference. Based on the error (RMSE) and correlation (R) of GCM outputs, the error-based GCM ranks were assigned on average over the indicators. Overall, the GCMs showed much better accuracy in representing mean climatology of temperature comparing to other elements whereas few GCM showed acceptable skills for precipitation. It was also found that the model skills and ranks would be substantially different by the climatic elements, error statistics applied for evaluation, and indicators as well. This study presents significance of GCM uncertainty and the needs of considering rational strategies for climate model evaluation and selection.

• Atmosphere
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.249-260
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• 2015

The changes in thermodynamic and dynamic aspects on near (2025~2049) and long-term (2075~2099) future climate changes between the historical run (1979~2005) and the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 run with 20 coupled models which employed in the phase five of Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project (CMIP5) over East Asia (EA) and the Korean Peninsula are investigated as an extended study for Moon et al. (2014) study noted that the 20 models' multi-model ensemble (MME) and best five models' multi-model ensemble (B5MME) have a different increasing trend of precipitation during the boreal winter and summer, in spite of a similar increasing trend of surface air temperature, especially over the Korean Peninsula. Comparing the MME and B5MME, the dynamic factor (the convergence of mean moisture by anomalous wind) and the thermodynamic factor (the convergence of anomalous moisture by mean wind) in terms of moisture flux convergence are analyzed. As a result, the dynamic factor causes the lower increasing trend of precipitation in B5MME than the MME during the boreal winter and summer over EA. However, over the Korean Peninsula, the dynamic factor causes the lower increasing trend of precipitation in B5MME than the MME during the boreal winter, whereas the thermodynamic factor causes the higher increasing trend of precipitation in B5MME than the MME during the boreal summer. Therefore, it can be noted that the difference between MME and B5MME on the change in precipitation is affected by dynamic (thermodynamic) factor during the boreal winter (summer) over the Korean Peninsula.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.37-37
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• 2021

아시아 지역은 전 세계 인구의 60%가 집중되어 있으며, 지역 내에는 다양한 기후대가 혼재되어 있다. 통상, 기후대는 지역의 전반적인 기후 및 가용 수자원 특성을 파악하는데 유용하게 활용된다. 지구온난화의 영향으로 지역의 기후변동성은 심화되고 있으며, 이는 급격한 기후대 이동을 초래할 것으로 전망된다. 본 연구에서는 AR6 기후변화시나리오를 기반으로 전지구 기온상승에 따른 아시아 지역의 기후대 변화특성을 분석하였다. CMIP6 GCMs 및 공유사회경제경로(SSP1-2.6 및 SSP5-8.5) 시나리오를 활용하여 앙상블 기후변화시나리오를 산출하였다. 관측 및 시나리오 자료를 활용하여 산업화 이전 대비 미래 전지구 기온상승(1.5℃~5.0℃) 특성을 추정하였다. 통계적상세화 기법을 적용하여 기후변화시나리오를 상세화하고, 쾨펜 기후구분법을 적용하여 기후특성에 따라 기후대를 구분하였다. 이후, 개별 전지구 기온상승 조건 하에서 아시아 지역의 기후대 분포 및 변화특성을 분석하였다. 전지구 기온이 상승함에 따라 아시아 지역 전반에서 기후대 변화가 가속화되는 것으로 확인되었으며, 이는 모든 SSPs 및 GCMs 시나리오 하에서 동일하였다. 전지구 기온 상승폭은 SSP1-2.6 대비 SSP5-8.5 시나리오 하에서 크게 나타났으며, 동일한 1.5℃ 및 2.0℃ 기온상승 조건에 도달하는 시기도 SSP5-8.5 시나리오에서 현저히 빠른 것으로 분석되었다. 한편, 기후대 이동이 나타나는 지역은 전지구 기온이 상승함에 따라 증가하였으며 5.0℃ (SSP5-8.5) 기온상승 조건 하에서 변화량이 가장 큰 것으로 분석되었다. 다만, 동일한 기온상승 조건 하에서는 SSP 시나리오와 관계없이 기후대 변화 면적 및 공간적 변화패턴이 유사하였다. 기온상승에 따라 아시아 지역 내 열대기후와 건조기후 지역은 확대되는 반면, 온대 및 한랭, 극기후 지역은 줄어들 것으로 전망되었다. 본 연구에서 도출된 전지구 기온상승 조건 별 아시아 지역의 미래 기후대 변화특성은 지역별 기후변화 영향평가 시 기초자료로 활용될 수 있다.

• Atmosphere
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.295-308
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• 2015

Based on the CMIP5 historical simulation datasets, we assessed the performance of state-of-the-art climate models in respect to the relationship between interannual variabilities of the North Pacific synoptic eddy (NPSE) and East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM). Observation (ERA-Interim) shows a high negative correlation (-0.73) between the interannual variabilities of East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) intensity and North Pacific synoptic eddy (NPSE) activity during the period of 1979~2005. Namely, a stronger (weaker) EAWM is related to a weaker (stronger) synoptic eddy activities over the North Pacific. This strong reverse relationship can be well explained by latitudinal distributions of the surface temperature anomalies over East Asian continent, which leads the variation of local baroclinicity and significantly weakens the baroclinic wave activities over the northern latitudes of $40^{\circ}N$. This feature is supported by the distribution of the meridional heat flux (${\overline{{\nu}^{\prime}{\theta}^{\prime}}}$) anomalies, which have negative (positive) values along the latitudes $40{\sim}50^{\circ}N$ for strong(weak) EAWM years. In this study, the historical simulations by 11 CMIP5 climate models (BCC-CSM1.1, CanESM2, GFDL-ESM2G, GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2-AO, HadGEM2-CC, IPSL-CM5A-LR, MPI-ESM-LR, MPI-ESM-MR, MRI-CGCM3, and NorESM1-M) are analyzed for DJF of 1979~2005. Correlation coefficient between the two phenomena is -0.59, which is comparable to that of observation. Model-to-model variation in this relationship is relatively large as the range of correlation coefficient is between -0.76 (HadGEM2-CC and HadGEM2-AO) and -0.33 (MRI-CGCM3). But, these reverse relationships are shown in all models without any exception. We found that the multi-model ensemble is qualitatively similar to the observation in reasoning (that is, latitudinal distribution of surface temperature anomalies, variation of local baroclinicity and meridional heat flux by synoptic eddies) of the reverse relationship. However, the uncertainty for weak EAWM is much larger than strong EAWM. In conclusion, we suggest that CMIP5 models as an ensemble have a good performance in the simulation of EAWM, NPSE, and their relationship.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.629-642
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• 2018

Future variability of the spatial patterns of rainfall events is the point of water-related risks and impacts of climate change. Recent related researches are mostly conducted based on the outcomes from General Circulation Models (GCMs), especially Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, phase 5 (CMIP5) GCMs which are the most advanced version of climate modeling system. GCM data have been widely used for various studies as the data utility keep getting improved. Meanwhile the model performances especially for raw GCM outputs are rarely evaluated prior to the applications although the process would essential for reasonable use of model forecasts. This study attempt to quantitatively evaluate the skills of 29 CMIP5 GCMs in reproducing spatial climatologies of precipitation in East Asia. We used 3 different gridded observational data as the references available over the study area and calculated correlation and errors of spatial patterns simulated by GCMs. As a result, the study presented diversity of the GCM evaluation in the performance, rank, or accuracy by different configurations, such as target area, evaluation method, and observation data. Yet, we found that Hadley-centre affiliated models comparatively performs better for the meso-scale area in East Asia and MPI_ESM_MR and CMCC family showed better performance specifically for the korean peninsula. We expect that the results and thoughts of this study would be considered in screening suitable GCMs for specific area, and finally contribute to extensive utilization of the results from climate change related researches.