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On the Study of the Seasonality Precipitatio over South Korea  

Yoon, Hee-Jung (Earth Science Education Major, Graduate School of Education Kyungpook National University)
Kim, Hee-Jong (Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
Yoon, Ill-Hee (Earth Science Education Major, School of Science Education Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.27, no.2, 2006 , pp. 149-158 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study analyzes the seasonality precipitation using precipitation data from 1973 to 2001 over South Korea. The Seasonality Index and Annual variation of the Seasonality Precipitation were investigated from sixty-three observation stations. The Seasonality Precipitation means the degree of the precipitation falling intensively for some specific months. Spatially, precipitation that has a strong characteristic of regional shower is defined as seasonal precipitation. Precipitation forms are changed with various reasons and mainly the sporadic and local shower precipitation after rain spell in summer. Especially there appears a tendency that this kind of precipitation is sharply increasing in 1990's. Seasonality Index is used as a method to understand seasonal precipitation. If the yearly rainfall is concentrated for some specific months, Seasonality Index is growing gradually. It is confirmed that there is a tendency that all the from sixty-two observation stations Seasonality Index. While Seasonality Index over South of Korea concentrated from June to August because of the summer rain spell in the past ($1973{\sim}1982$), there appears to be a tendency that it concentrated from August and September since the mid 1990's. From the analysis of seasonal precipitation intensity distribution, most of southern Korea is under seasonality precipitation intensity 4. The seasonality precipitation intensity classification results are as follow: most of the observation stations were on a scale intensity of 3 and 4 in the past but currently reads seasonality precipitation intensities of 5 and 6.
Keywords
precipitation; seasonality precipitation; Seasonality Index; precipitation intensity;
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연도 인용수 순위
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