• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.38-38
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• 2012

The East Asia (EA) region including China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are especially vulnerable to hydrometerological extremes during the boreal summer (June-September). This study, therefore, pursued an exploratory analysis to improve better understanding of the potential impacts of the two types of PJ patterns on WNP Tropical cyclone (TC) activities and TC-induced extreme moisture fluxes over Korea's five major river basins. This study shows that during positive PJ years, the large-scale atmospheric environments are more favorable for the TC activities than those in negative PJ years. During positive PJ year, it is found that there are weaker wind shear, stronger rising motion, as well as large relative humidity over the Korean peninsula (KP) compared to negative PJ years. As a result, TCs making landfall are more exhibited over the southeastern portions of South Korea. Despite the relatively modest sample size, we expect that insights and results presented here will be useful for developing a critical support system for the effective reduction and mitigation of TC-caused disasters, as well as for water supply management in coupled human and natural systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.91-91
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• 2016

본 연구는 대규모 대기환경패턴 변화에 따른 극한 기후발생 및 극치 수문사상의 지역적 변동 특성을 분석하였고, 통계기법을 이용한 기후지수와 수문변량간의 원격상관관계 분석결과를 이용하여 한반도 중 장기 수문변량 예측의 가능성을 진단하였다. 또한 경남 지자체를 대상으로 다양한 통계예측모형(AR, MA, ARMA, ARIMA, VAR)을 구축하여 그 예측능력을 평가하고 적용성을 검토하였고, 중 장기 통합홍수위험 평가를 위한 인덱스를 개발하였다. 서로 다른 엘니뇨 시기별 홍수 위험도 평가결과 전형적인 엘니뇨(Cold Tongue El Nino)해에는 남해안 일부 지역(거제시, 남해군)에서 위험도가 높게 산정되었으며, 경남 북부지역에서는 위험도가 매우 낮게 산정되었다. 중앙태평양 엘니뇨(Warm Pool El Nino) 해에는 경남 남부 지역을 중심으로 홍수위험지수가 높게 나타나 중앙태평양 엘니뇨가 발달 시 경남지역의 홍수위험 발생 가능성 평년에 비하여 큰 것으로 분석된다. 또한 라니냐(La Nina) 해에는 경남 서쪽일부 지역(남해군, 하동군, 산청군)에서 통합홍수위험지수가 높게 나타났으며, 나머지 지역에서는 홍수위험도가 작거나 중간 값을 보이는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구는 중 장기적 관점에서 수자원 예측 및 효율적인 물 관리와 안정적인 용수공급에 도움을 줄 것으로 사료되며, 한반도 대상 특정 엘니뇨 해의 지자체별 홍수위험 취약성 평가에 활용이 가능할 것이다.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.575-585
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• 2018

In the case study of this paper, sensitivity experiments are carried out using the mesoscale non-hydrostatic Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to investigate the impact of tropical cyclone (TC) Soudelor (2003) on the East Asian subtropical upper-level jet (EASJ) before TC Soudelor transformed into an extratropical cyclone. The physical mechanism for changes in the EASJ intensity and position caused by TC Soudelor is explored. Results indicate that TC Soudelor would warm the air in the middle and upper troposphere over the Japan Sea and the adjacent areas through stimulating northward propagating teleconnection pattern as well as releasing large amounts of latent heat, which led to increase (decrease) the meridional air temperature gradient to the south (north) below the EASJ axis. As a result, the geopotential height abnormally increased in the upper troposphere, resulting in an anomalous anticyclonic circulation belt along the EASJ axis. Correspondingly, the westerly winds to the north (south) of the EASJ axis intensified (weakened) and the EASJ axis shifted northward by one degree. The case study also suggests that before the extratropical cyclone transition of TC Soudelor, the TC activities had exerted significant impacts on the EASJ through thermodynamic processes.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.228-236
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• 2021

Background: A review of the literature was carried out to study dust and sandstorm (DSS) in terms of its ecosystem processes and relationship to other dryland disasters in Northeast Asia. Drylands are ecosystems that include grasslands, semi-deserts, and deserts, and these types of ecosystems are vulnerable due to their low primary productivity that depends on a small amount of precipitation. Results: Drought, dust, desertification, and winter livestock disasters (called dzud) are unique natural disasters that affect the region. These disasters are related in that they share major causes, such as dryness and low vegetation cover that combine with other conditions, wind, cold waves, livestock, and land-surface energy, to dramatically impact the ecosystem. Conclusions: The literature review in this study illustrates the macroscopic context of the spatial and temporal patterns of DSS according to geography, climate, and vegetation growth in the drylands of Northeast Asia. The effects of ocean climates and human activities were discussed to infer a possible teleconnection effect of DSS and its relations to desertification and dzud.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.47-47
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• 2023

Drought occurs due to lack of water resources over an extended period and its intensity has been magnified globally by climate change. In recent years, drought over South Korea has also been intensed, and the prediction was inevitable for the water resource management and water industry. Therefore, drought forecasting over South Korea was performed in the current study with the following procedure. First, accumulated spring precipitation(ASP) driven by the 93 weather stations in South Korea was taken with their median. Then, correlation analysis was followed between ASP and Df4m, the differences of two pair of the global winter MSLP. The 37 Df4m variables with high correlations over 0.55 was chosen and sorted into three regions. The selected Df4m variables in the same region showed high similarity, leading the multicollinearity problem. To avoid this problem, a model that performs variable selection and model fitting at once, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator(LASSO) was applied. The LASSO model selected 5 variables which showed a good agreement of the predicted with the observed value, R²=0.72. Other models such as multiple linear regression model and ElasticNet were also performed, but did not present a performance as good as LASSO. Therefore, LASSO model can be an appropriate model to forecast spring drought over South Korea and can be used to mange water resources efficiently.

• Atmosphere
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.345-358
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• 2017

The decadal change in rainfall for Changma period over the South Korea in early-2000s is detected in this study. The Changma rainfall in P1 (1992~2002) decade is remarkably less than in P2 (2003~2013) decade. The much rainfall in P2 decade is associated with the increase of rainy day frequency during Changma period, including the frequent occurrences of rainy day with a intensity of 30 mm/day or more in P2 decade. This decadal change in the Changma rainfall is due to the decadal change of atmospheric circulation around the Korean Peninsula which affects the intensity and location of Changma rainfall. During P2 decade, the anomalous anti-cyclone over the south of the Korean Peninsula, which represents the expansion of the North Pacific high with warm and wet air mass toward East Asia, is stronger than in P1 decade. In addition, the upper level zonal wind and meridional gradient of low-level equivalent potential temperature in P2 decade is relatively strengthened over the northern part of the Korean Peninsula than in P1 decade, which corresponds with the intensification of meridional gradient between air mass related to the East Asian summer monsoon nearby the Korean Peninsula in P2 decade. The enhanced meridional gradient of atir mass during P2 decade is favorable condition for the intensification of Changma rainfall band and more Changma rainfall. The atmospheric conditions related to enhanced Changma rainfall during P2 decade is likely to be influenced by the teleconnection linked to the suppressed convection anomaly over the southern part of China and South China Sea in P2 decade.

• Atmosphere
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.687-696
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• 2016

The western North Pacific subtropical high (WNPSH) in boreal summer has interannual and interdecadal variability, which affects East Asian summer monsoon variability. In particular, it is well known that the intensity of WNPSH is reversely related to that of summer monsoon in North East Asia in association with Pacific Japan (PJ)-like pattern. Many coupled climate models weakly simulate this large-scale teleconnection pattern and also exhibit the diverse variability of WNPSH. This study discusses the inter-model differences of WNPSH simulated by different climate models, which participate in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5). In comparing with reanalysis observation, the 29 CMIP5 models could be assorted into two difference groups in terms of interannual variability of WNPSH. This study also discusses the dynamical or thermodynamics factors for the differences of two groups of the CMIP5 climate models. As results, the regressed precipitation in well-simulating group onto the Nino3.4 index ($5^{\circ}N-5^{\circ}S$, $170^{\circ}W-120^{\circ}W$) is stronger than that in poorly-simulating group. We suggest that this difference of two groups of the CMIP5 climate models would have an effect on simulating the interannual variability of WNPSH.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.593-601
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• 2000

Analyzing monthly inflows of the Chung-Ju Dam associated with EI Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Kim and Lee(2000) reported that the fall and winter inflows in EI Nino years tended to be low while those in La Nina years tended to be high. This study proposes a methodology of employing such a teleconnection between ENSO and inflow in reservoir operations. The ENSO information is used as a hydrologic state variable in stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) to derive a monthly optimal rule for operating the Chung- Ju Dam. An alternative operating rule is also derived with the SDP with no hydrologic state variable. Both of the SDP operating rules are simulated and compared to examine the value of using the ENSO information in operations of the Chung-Ju Dam. The simulation results show that the operating rule using the ENSO information increases energy generation and reliability of water supply as well as reduces spill. spill.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.51-61
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• 2009

In this study we define the two different types of El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$, i.e., the eastern Pacific El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ (i.e., EP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$) versus the central Pacific El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ (i.e., CP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$), during the boreal summer (June-July-August, JJA) and winter (December-January-February, DJF) using the two NINO indices in the tropical Pacific. The two different types of El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ significantly differ in terms of the location of the maximum anomalous sea surface temperature (SST) in the tropical Pacific. The CP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ has been observed more frequently during recent decades compared to the EP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$. In addition, our analysis indicates that the statistics of CP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ during JJA is closely associated with the warming trend in the central equatorial Pacific. We also examine the different responses of the East Asian marginal SST to the two types of El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ during JJA and DJF. The CP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ during both JJA and DJF is concurrent with warm SST anomalies around the Korean Peninsula including the East China Sea, which is in contrast to the EP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$. Such different responses are associated with the difference in tropics/mid-latitude teleconnections via atmosphere between the two types of El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$. Furthermore, our results indicate that atmospheric diabatic forcing in relation to the precipitation variability is different in the tropical Pacific between the EP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$ and the CP-El $Ni{\tilde{n}}o$.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.314-314
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• 2019

가뭄대응 및 이수분야 활용을 위한 장기 기상예측정보 확보를 위해, 경안천 유역을 대상으로 전구기후지수의 원격상관 패턴을 이용하여 통계적 기반의 다중회귀모형을 구성하고 월 강수량의 예측가능성을 평가하였다. 예측인자로서 미국 NOAA에서 제공하는 기후지수 중 총 37개의 지수에 대해 1948~2018년의 월 자료를 이용하였으며, 예측대상인 경안천 월 강수량은 1966~2018년의 유역평균 강수량 자료를 활용하였다. 각 기후지수별 1~24개월 선행자료와 예측대상년도 월 강수량과의 상관분석을 통해 상관성이 높은 기후자료를 선별하여 다중회귀모형의 독립변수로 적용하였다. 예측대상년도를 기준으로 과거 40년의 자료(월 강수량 및 월 기후지수)를 보정자료와 검정자료로 구분(20년씩 무작위로 추출)하고, 보정기간에 대해 도출된 회귀모형 중 검정기간을 대상으로 예측성이 좋은 100개의 회귀모형을 선별하여 예측대상기간에 대한 예측모형으로 활용하였다. 2006~2018년에 대해 전망기간별(1개월, 3개월, 6개월, 12개월)로 각 월별 100개 회귀모형으로 부터의 예측값(예측치의 범위)이 실제 관측치를 포함하는 경우를 월별로 분석한 결과 10월이 가장 높고(83%), 11월(81%), 1월(79%), 8월(77%), 6월(75%), 12월(71%)의 순으로 높게 나타났으며, 상대적으로 7월(29%)과 3월(44%)의 예측성이 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 통계적 모형의 특성상 전망기간에 따른 예측의 정확도는 비례하지 않았다. 예측치의 편차는 크지 않지만 예측성이 낮게 나타나는 기간(3월, 2월)과 예측성은 높지만 예측범위가 크게 나타나는 기간(8월, 6월)에 대해서는 예측모형의 재검토 및 다양한 규모의 유역에 대한 적용을 통해 예측인자 추가 및 보완 등을 수행할 예정이다.