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Projected Climate Change Impact on Surface Water Temperature in Korea  

Ahn, Jong Ho (Division of Water and Environment, Korea Environment Institute)
Han, Dae Ho (Division of Water and Environment, Korea Environment Institute)
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Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment / v.26, no.1, 2010 , pp. 133-139 More about this Journal
Abstract
Global human activities associated with the use of fossil fuels have aggravated climate change, increasing air temperature. Consequently, climate change has the potential to alter surface water temperature with significant impacts on biogeochemical cycling and ecosystems in natural water body. In this study, we examined temporal trends on historical records of surface water temperature, and investigated the air temperature/water temperature relationship and the potential water temperature change from an air temperature scenario developed with regional climate model. Although the temporal trends of water temperature are highly variable site-by-site, surface water temperature was highly dependent on air temperature, and has increased significantly in some sub-watersheds over the last two decades. The results presented here demonstrate that water temperature changes are expected to be slightly higher in river system than reservoir systems and more significant during winter than summer for both river and reservoir system. Projected change of surface water temperature will likely increase $1.06^{\circ}C$ for rivers and $0.95^{\circ}C$ for reservoirs during the period 2008 to 2050. Given the potential climatic changes, every $1^{\circ}C$ increase in water temperature could cause dissolved oxygen levels to fall every 0.206 ppm.
Keywords
Climate change; Surface water; Temperature; Water quality;
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