• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.13-24
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• 2012

CCGIS (Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit based on GIS) was developed to use as a tool for the climate change assessment and any relevant tasks involving climate change adaptation policy over Korean peninsula. The main objective of CCGIS is to facilitate an efficient and relevant information for the estimation of climate change vulnerability index by providing key information in the climate change adaptation process. In particular, the atmospheric modeling system implemented in CCGIS, which is composed of climate and meteorological numerical model and the atmospheric environmental models, were used as a tool to generate the climate and environmental IPCC SRES (A2, B1, A1B, A1T, A1FI, and A1 scenarios) climate data for the year of 2000, 2020, 2050, and 2100. This article introduces the components of CCGIS and describes its application to the Korean peninsula. Some examples of the CCGIS and its use for both climate change adaptation and estimation of vulnerability index applied to Korean provinces are presented and discussed here.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.795-799
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• 2012

기후변화의 영향으로 인해 전 지구적으로 강우의 시 공간적 패턴이 변화하고 있으며, 우리나라의 경우 강우일수는 줄어들고 강우량은 증가하는 양상을 보일 것으로 전망하고 있다. 이는 강우현상이 발생할 경우 그 강도가 과거와 비교하여 강해지며, 가뭄 역시 그 심도가 보다 심각해질 수 있음을 의미한다. 이와 같이 기후변화에 의한 강우의 양상이 과거와 이질적으로 변화하고 있으므로 이를 고려한 물관리분야의 적응대책의 수립이 필요하다. 이를 위해서는 기후변화 영향에 따른 각 지역별 취약성 평가가 선결되어야 하며, 그 결과에 근거한 적응대책의 수립이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 환경부 국립환경과학원에서 개발한 CCGIS를 이용하여 전라남도 22개 시 군의 물관리분야에 대한 취약성 평가를 수행하였다. CCGIS는 다양한 기후변화 시나리오 중 A1B 시나리오를 바탕으로 하고 있다. 치수의 취약성, 이수의 취약성, 수질 및 수생태에 대한 취약성을 대용변수(기후노출, 민감도 및 적응능력)를 이용하여 현재와 미래시점에 대하여 평가하였다. 먼저, 현재시점에서 전라남도 22개 시 군의 치수에 대한 취약성 평가 결과를 보면, 보성군이 가장 취약한 것으로 나타났으며, 나주시가 가장 양호한 것으로 분석되었다. 또한, 현재시점의 이수에 대한 취약성 평가에서는 목포시의 취약성이 타지역에 비해 현저히 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 고흥군이 가장 양호한 것으로 분석되었다. 수질 및 수생태에 대한 취약성 평가에는 구례군이 가장 취약하며, 목포시가 가장 양호한 것으로 나타났다. 미래시점(2050년대)의 치수에 대하여 상대적으로 취약한 지역은 순천시, 광양시, 구례군으로 조사되었으며, 따라서 이에 대한 방안 마련이 필요한 것으로 판단된다. 이수에 대해 상대적으로 취약한 지역은 목포시로 나타났으며, 전라남도 전역에 걸쳐 이수에 대한 취약성이 미래로 갈수록 낮아지는 경향을 보이고 있다. 수질 및 수생태에 대한 취약성 평가의 결과는 시 공간적으로 큰 변동이 없는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.275-285
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• 2017

Chungnam region has established and executed the 2nd Climate Change Adaptation Initiative Execution Plan (2017~2021) based on the Framework Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth. The Execution Plan is established based on the results of climate change vulnerability assessment using the CCGIS, LCCGIS, and VESTAP analysis tools. However, the previously developed climate change vulnerability assessment tools (CCGIS, LCCGIS, VESTAP) cannot reflect the local records and the items and indices of new assessment. Therefore, this study developed a prototype of climate change vulnerability assessment analysis tool that, unlike the previous analysis tools, designs the items and indices considering the local characteristics and allows analysis of grid units. The prototype was used to simulate the vulnerability to forest fires of eight cities and seven towns in Chungcheongnam-do Province in the 2010s, 2020s, and 2050s based on the RCP (Representative Concentration Pathways) 8.5 Scenario provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration. Based on the analysis, Chungcheongnam-do Province's vulnerability to forest fires in the 2010s was highest in Seocheon-gun (0.201), followed by Gyeryong-si (0.173) and Buyeo-gun (0.173) and the future prospects in the 2050s was highest in Seocheon-gun (0.179), followed by Gyeryong-si (0.169) and Buyeo-gun (0.154). The area with highest vulnerability to forest fires in Chungcheongnam-do Province was Biin-myeon, Seocheon-gun and the area may become most vulnerable was Pangyo-myeon, Seocheon-gun. The prototype and the results of analysis may be used to establish the directions and strategies in regards to the vulnerability to wild fires to secure each local government's 2nd execution plan and attainability.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.677-693
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• 2013

IPCC showed that calculation of climate vulnerability index requires standardization process of various proxy variables for the estimation of climate exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. In this study, four different methodologies of standardization methods: Z-score, Rescaling, Ranking, and Distance to the reference country, are employed to evaluate climate vulnerability-VRI (Vulnerability-Resilience Indicator) over Korean peninsula, and the error ranges of VRI, arising from employing the different standardization are estimated. All of proxy variables are provided by CCGIS (Climate Change adaptation toolkit based on GIS) which hosts information on both past and current socio-economic data and climate and environmental IPCC SRES (A2, B1, A1B, A1T, A1FI, and A1 scenarios) climate data for the decades of 2000s, 2020s, 2050s, and 2100s. The results showed that Z-score and Rescaling methods showed statistically undistinguishable results with minor differences of spatial distribution, while Ranking and Distance to the reference country methods showed some possibility to lead the different ranking of VRI among South Korean provinces, depending on the local characteristics and reference province. The resultant VRIs calculated from different standardization methods showed Cronbach's alpha of more than 0.84, indicating that all of different methodologies were overall consistent. Similar horizontal distributions were shown with the same trends: VRI increases as province is close to the coastal region and/or it close toward lower latitude, and decreases as it is close to urbanization area. Other characteristics of the four different standardization are discussed in this study.

• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.397-407
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• 2013

Seasons in Korea have very distinguishable features. Due to continental high pressure, spring in Korea is dry and has low precipitation. Due to climate change derived from the increase of greenhouse gases, climate variability had increased and it became harder to predict. This caused the spring drought harsher than usual. Since 1990s, numbers of chronic drought from winter to spring increased in southern regions of Korea. Such drought in the spring damages the growth and development of the crops sown in the spring and decreases its quantity. For stable agricultural production in the future, it is necessary to assess vulnerability of the relationship between spring drought and agricultural production as well as to establish appropriate measures accordingly. This research used CCGIS program to perform vulnerability assessment on spring drought based on climate change scenario SRES A1B, A1FI, A1T, A2, B1, B2 and RCP 8.5 in 232 regions in Korea. As a result, Every scenario showed that vulnerability of spring drought decreased from 2000s to 2050s. Ratio of decrease was 37% under SRES scenario but, 3% under RCP 8.5 scenario. Also, for 2050 prediction, every scenario predicted the highest vulnerability in Chungcheongnam-do. However, RCP-8.5 predicted higher vulnerability in Gyeonggi-do than SRES scenario. The reason for overall decrease in vulnerability of agriculture for future spring drought is because the increase of precipitation was predicted. The assessment of vulnerability by different regions showed that choosing suitable scenario is very important factor.