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http://dx.doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2016.49.4.293

Analysis of drought characteristics depending on RCP scenarios at Korea  

Kim, Jungho (College of Engineering, Colorado State University)
Kim, Sangdan (Department of Environmental Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Joo, Jingul (Department of Civil Engineering, Dongshin University)
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Journal of Korea Water Resources Association / v.49, no.4, 2016 , pp. 293-303 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study implemented a comparison of SPI characteristics in terms of quantitative and spatial analysis depending on four RCP scenarios. For this purpose, we compared quantitative characteristics of drought using standard precipitation index resulted from daily precipitation data reflecting future green gas concentration scenarios, and spatial distribution field of seasonal drought occurrence frequency and its duration, was analyzed to compare drought trends depending on the RCP scenarios. As a result, we found that SPI time series was quite different from each other and correlation coefficients were lower than 0.08. Depending on the RCP scenarios, spatial distribution results showed different trends in drought severity, frequency, and duration. The biggest reason of the difference is daily precipitation data based on the different greenhouse gas concentrations, but we could not find the effect of the concentration extent on drought occurrence projection. In addition, according to the results from this study, drought analysis results using single RCP scenario may have considerable uncertainty.
Keywords
Climate Change; drought; projection; RCP scenario;
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