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Utility of Climate Model Information For Water Resources Management in Korea

  • Jeong, Chang-Sam (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Induk Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 2008.12.31
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Abstract

It is expected that conditions of water resources will be changed in Korea in accordance with world wide climate change. In order to deal with this problem and find a way of minimizing the effect of future climate change, the usefulness of climate model simulation information is examined in this study. The objective of this study is to assess the applicability of GCM (General Circulation Model) information for Korean water resources management through uncertainty analysis. The methods are based on probabilistic measures of the effectiveness of GCM simulations of an indicator variable for discriminating high versus low regional observations of a target variable. The formulation uses the significance probability of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for detecting differences between two variables. An estimator that accounts for climate model simulation and spatial association between the GCM data and observed data is used. Atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) simulations done by ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) with a resolution of $2^{\circ}{\times}2^{\circ}$, and METRI (Meteorological Research Institute, Korea) with resolutions of $2^{\circ}{\times}2^{\circ}$ and $4^{\circ}{\times}5^{\circ}$, were used for indicator variables, while observed mean areal precipitation (MAP) data, discharge data and mean areal temperature data on the seven major river basins in Korea were used for target variables. The results show that GCM simulations are useful in discriminating the high from the low of the observed precipitation, discharge, and temperature values. Temperature especially can be useful regardless of model and season.

우리나라도 세계적인 기후변화 추세에 따라 장래 수자원의 변동이 예상되고 있다. 이러한 문제에 대응하고 피해를 최소화하기 위해서는 미래의 기후를 예측하는 기상모형으로부터 유용한 정보를 추출하여 활용하는 방안을 마련하여야 한다. 본 연구의 목적은 불확실성 분석을 통한 수자원 운영의 중심이 되는 국내 유역들에 대한 GCM모형의 활용성을 평가하는 것이다. 주된 기법은 Kolmogorov-Smirnov test를 이용하여 관측값과 GCM 모의값의 유의성을 평가하는 것이다. GCM의 시공간적 특성을 고려한 기법이 제안되었으며, 유럽의 ECMWF모형과 국내 기상연구소에서 모의한 서로 다른 해상도를 지니는 Metri-GCM의 표면 강수량과 표면온도 자료 등이 추출되어 적용되었다. 관측값으로는 유역대표 강수량, 온도, 유량 등의 자료가 적용되었다. 분석 결과 GCM의 유역별 적용성을 확인할 수 있었는데, 특히 온도 자료의 경우 대부분의 유역에 모든 모형의 모의 결과가 적용 가능함을 확인하였다.

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