• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.136-149
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• 2011

The aim of this study is to develop future climate scenario by downscaling the regional climate model (RCM) from global climate model (GCM) based on IPCC A1B scenario. To this end, the study first resampled the KMA-RCM(Korea meteorological administration-regional climate model) from spatial resolution of 27km to 1km. Second, observed climatic data of temperature and rainfall through 1971-2000 were processed to reflect the temperature lapse rate with respect to the altitude of each meteorological observation station. To optimize the downscaled results, Co-kriging was used to calculate temperature lapse-rate; and IDW was used to calculate rainfall lapse rate. Fourth, to verify results of the study we performed correlation analysis between future climate change projection data and observation data through the years 2001-2010. In this study the past climate data (1971-2000), future climate change scenarios(A1B), KMA-RCM(Korea meteorological administration-regional climate model) results and the 1km DEM were used. The research area is entire South Korea and the study period is from 1971 to 2100. Monthly mean temperatures and rainfall with spatial resolution of 1km * 1km were produced as a result of research. Annual average temperature and precipitation had increased by $1.39^{\circ}C$ and 271.23mm during 1971 to 2100. The development of downscaling method using GIS and verification with observed data could reduce the uncertainty of future climate change projection.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1018-1022
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• 2008

2007년 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) 4차보고서 이후로 지구 온난화에 대한 다양한 부분에 영향 분석 연구가 더욱 활발하게 진행되고 있으며, 그 가운데 수자원 즉 육상의 물 순환은 인간 활동과 생태계 전반에 대한 직접 영향으로 인해 기후변화 정책 수립 시 그 중요성이 더욱 부각되고 있다. 현재까지, 많은 연구에 있어서 Global Circulation Model (GCM)을 직접 축소기법을 이용한 후 이를 수문 모형에 입력하여 수자원 영향 분석을 실시해오고 있다. 국외를 중심으로 기존 GCM보다 해상도가 높은 Regional Climate Model(RCM)을 이용한 분석이 일부 시행되고 있으나, 국내에서는 자료의 가용 여부 및 적용성의 검토가 아직 미비한 실정이다. 이러한 관점에서 본 연구에서는 27km의 해상도를 갖는 기상청 RegCM3 RCM에서 도출된 10일 간격 기후변화 SRES 시나리오 자료에 대한 적합성을 평가하고자 한다. 적합성을 평가 하기위해서 국내 주요지점에 근접한 격자자료를 RCM으로부터 추출하고 이에 대한 수문학적 특성치 분석, 저빈도 분석(low frequency analysis), 극치사상의 분포형태 등을 실측 강수자료와 다양한 형태로 비교 검토하여 RCM 자료의 적합성을 평가하였다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.5B
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• pp.525-533
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• 2008

Global circulation models (GCMs) have been used to study impact of climate change on water resources for hydrologic models as inputs. Recently, regional circulation models (RCMs) have been used widely for climate change study, but the RCMs have been rarely used in the climate change impacts on water resources in Korea. Therefore, this study is intended to use a set of climate scenarios derived by RegCM3 RCM ($27km{\times}27km$), which is operated by Korea Meteorological Administration. To begin with, the RCM precipitation data surrounding major rainfall stations are extracted to assess validation of the scenarios in terms of reproducing low frequency behavior. A comprehensive comparison between observation and precipitation scenario is performed through statistical analysis, wavelet transform analysis and EOF analysis. Overall analysis confirmed that the precipitation data driven by RegCM3 shows capabilities in simulating hydrological low frequency behavior and reproducing spatio-temporal patterns. However, it is found that spatio-temporal patterns are slightly biased and amplitudes (variances) from the RCMs precipitation tend to be lower than the observations. Therefore, a bias correction scheme to correct the systematic bias needs to be considered in case the RCMs are applied to water resources assessment under climate change.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.249-258
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• 2006

Impacts of global warming have been identified in many areas including natural ecosystem. A good number of studies based on climate models forecasting future climate have been conducted in many countries worldwide. Due to its global coverage, GCM, which is a most frequently used climate model, has limits to apply to Korea with such a narrower and complicated terrain. Therefore, it is necessary to perform a study impact assessment of climate changes with a climate model fully reflecting characteristics of Korean climate. In this respect, this study was designed to compare and analyze the GCM and RCM in order to determine a suitable climate model for Korea. In this study, spatial scope was Korea for 10 years from 1981 to 1990. As a research method, current climate was estimated on the basis of the data obtained from observation at the GHCN. Future climate was forecast using 4 GCMs furnished by the IPCC among SRES A2 Scenario as well as the RCM received from the NIES of Japan. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted for the purpose of comparing data obtained from observation with GCM and RCM. As a result of this study, average annual temperature of Korea between 1981 and 1990 was found to be around $12.03^{\circ}C$, with average daily rainfall being 2.72mm. Under the GCM, average annual temperature was between 10.22 and $16.86^{\circ}C$, with average daily rainfall between 2.13 and 3.35mm. Average annual temperature in the RCM was identified $12.56^{\circ}C$, with average daily rainfall of 5.01mm. In the comparison of the data obtained from observation with GCM and RCM, RCMs of both temperature and rainfall were found to well reflect characteristics of Korea's climate. This study is important mainly in that as a preliminary study to examine impact of climate changes such as global warming it chose appropriate climate model for our country. These results of the study showed that future climate produced under similar conditions with actual ones may be applied for various areas in many ways.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.585-596
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• 2013

The objective of this study is to evaluate the hybrid downscaling method combined Step-Wise Scaling (SWS) method with Regional Climate Model (RCM) simulation data for climate change impact study on hydrology area. The SWS method is divided by 3 categories (extreme event, dry event and the others). The extreme events, wet-dry days and the others are corrected by using regression method, quantile mapping method, mean & variance scaling method. The application and evaluation of SWS method with 3 existing and popular statistical techniques (linear scaling method, quantile mapping method and weather generator method) were performed at the 61 weather stations. At the results, the accuracy of corrected simulation data by using SWS are higher than existing 3 statistical techniques. It is expected that the usability of SWS method will grow up on climate change study when the use of RCM simulation data are increasing.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.73-78
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• 2007

It has been increasing that significant loss of life and property due to global wanning and extreme weather, and the climate and temperature changes in Korea Peninsula are now greater than the global averages. Climate information from regional climate models(RCM) at a finer resolution than that of global climate models(GCM) is required to predictclimate and weather variability, changes, and impacts. The new surface boundary conditions(SBCs) development is motivated by the limitations and inconsistencies of existing SBCs that have influence on model predictability. A critical prerequisite in constructing SBCs is that the raw data should be accurate with physical consistency across all relevant parameters and must be appropriately filled for missing data if any. The aim of this study is to construct appropriate SBCs for the RCM in Asia domain which will be used for the prevention of disasters due to climate changes. As all SBCs have constructed onto the 30km grid-mesh of the RCM suitable for Asia applications, they can be also used for other distributed models for climate and hydrologic studies.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.309-323
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• 2010

As climate changes and abnormal climates have drawn research interest recently, many countries utilize the GCM, which is based on SRES suggested by IPCC, to obtain more accurate forecast for future climate changes. Especially, many research attempts have been made to simulate localized geographical characteristics by using RCM with the high resolution data globally. To evaluate the impacts of climate and landuse change on water resources in the Han-river basin, we carried out the procedure consisting of the CA-Markov Chain, the Multi-Regression equation using two independent variables of temperature and rainfall, the downscaling technique based on the RegCM3 RCM, and SLURP. From the CA-Markov Chain, the future landuse change is forecasted and the future NDVI is predicted by the Multi-Regression equation. Also, RegCM3 RCM 50 sets were generated by the downscaling technique based on the RegCM3 RCM provided by KMA. With them, 90 year runoff scenarios whose period is from 2001 to 2090 are simulated for the Han-river basin by SLURP. Finally, the 90-year simulated monthly runoffs are compared with the historical monthly runoffs for each dam in the basin. At Paldang dam, the runoffs in September show higher increase than the ones in August which is due to the change of rainfall pattern in future. Additionally, after exploring the impact of the climate change on the structure of water circulation, we find that water management will become more difficult by the changes in the water circulation factors such as precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, and runoff in the Han-river basin.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.54-58
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• 2011

According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), climate change is already in progress around the world, and it is necessary to start mitigation and adaptation strategies for buildings in order to minimize adverse impacts. It is likely that the South Korea will experience milder winters and hotter and more extreme summers. Those changes will impact on building performance, particularly with regard to cooling and ventilation, with implications for the quality of the indoor environment, energy consumption and carbon emissions. This study generate weather data for future climate change for use in impacts studies using PRECIS (Providing REgional Climate for Impacts Studies). These scenarios and RCM (Regional Climate Model) are provided high-resolution climate-change predictions for a region generally consistent with the continental-scale climate changes predicted in the GCM (Global Climate Model).

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.363-363
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• 2012

최근 극심하게 변화하고 있는 기후에 적응하기 위해서 미래 기후를 좀 더 정확하게 예측하고자 많은 연구가 진행되어지고 있다. 결국, 기후변화에 따른 기온, 강수, 습도, 바람 등의 기후정보를 기후모형을 이용하여 얻게 되면 이에 따라 우리가 받게 되는 영향, 취약성 등을 평가하여 다양하게 활용하고자 하는 것이다. 우리나라는 지형적으로 육지의 70% 정도를 산악 지역이 차지할 만큼 복잡한 지형과 다양한 기후의 특성을 나타나고 있어 미래에 대한 기후변화 시나리오를 산출하는 기본적인 도구이면서 공간해상도가 약 400km인 전지구 기후모형(Global Climate Model; GCM)으로 그대로 활용하기에는 곤란하다. 따라서 지역기후모형(Regional Climate Model; RCM)을 통해서 추정된 A1B시나리오를 기본 기후변화 시나리오로 활용하는 것이 일반적이다. 하지만 GCM이나 RCM 기반 기후변화 시나리오는 실제 강수의 특성을 제대로 재현하지 못하는 경향이 있으며 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해서 통계적인 상세화 기법을 통해서 수문학적으로 활용 가능한 기후변화 시나리오를 생산하여 이용한다. 본 연구에서는 새롭게 제공되는 RCP시나리오를 이용하여 북한을 포함하는 한반도 전체에 대한 기후변화 영향을 평가하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.279-283
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• 2008

국외를 중심으로 기존 GCM보다 해상도가 높은 Regional Climate Model(RCM)을 이용한 분석이 일부 시행되고 있으나, 국내에서는 이를 이용한 연구가 아직 미비한 실정이다. 이러한 관점에서 본 연구에서는 27km의 해상도를 갖는 기상청 RegCM3 RCM에서 도출된 기후변화 SRES 시나리오 자료를 이용하고자 한다. 수자원의 장기 거동을 강우-유출 모형으로 모사하기 위해서는 입력 자료인 일 강수자료 계열을 모의발생이 필요하며 본 연구에서는 천이확률 및 강수 모의에 이용되는 Gamma 확률분포와 같은 분포형의 매개변수들이 외부 인자 즉 기후변화 시나리오에 따라 조건부로 변동할 수 있는 CWGEN(Cross-validated Canonical Correlation Analysis-Weather Generator) 강수 모의기법을 도입하여 이용하였다. RCM 자료 그 자체는 일반적으로 시 공간적으로 왜곡되어 있어 Quantile Mapping을 통하여 수정을 하였다. 최종적으로 모의된 결과를 바탕으로 기후변화에 따른 극치사상들에 대한 정량적인 거동을 추정하고 평가하였다.