• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2024

Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (HCBs) are caused by the rapid proliferation of cyanobacteria and are believed to be exacerbated by climate change. However, the extent to which HCBs will be stimulated in the future due to increased temperature remains uncertain. This study aims to predict the future occurrence of cyanobacteria in the Nakdong River, which has the highest incidence of HCBs in South Korea, based on temperature rise scenarios. Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) were used as the basis for these scenarios. Data-driven model simulations were conducted, and out of the four machine learning techniques tested (multiple linear regression, support vector regressor, decision tree, and random forest), the random forest model was selected for its relatively high prediction accuracy. The random forest model was used to predict the occurrence of cyanobacteria. The results of boxplot and time-series analyses showed that under the worst-case scenario (RCP8.5 (2100)), where temperature increases significantly, cyanobacterial abundance across all study areas was greatly stimulated. The study also found that the frequencies of HCB occurrences exceeding certain thresholds (100,000 and 1,000,000 cells/mL) increased under both the best-case scenario (RCP2.6 (2050)) and worst-case scenario (RCP8.5 (2100)). These findings suggest that the frequency of HCB occurrences surpassing a certain threshold level can serve as a useful diagnostic indicator of vulnerability to temperature increases caused by climate change. Additionally, this study highlights that water bodies currently susceptible to HCBs are likely to become even more vulnerable with climate change compared to those that are currently less susceptible.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제57권5호
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• pp.69-80
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• 2015

The majority of projections of future climate come from Global Circulation Models (GCMs), which vary in the way they were modeled the climate system, and so it produces different projections about conceptualizing of the weather system. To implement climate change impact assessment, it is necessary to analyze trends of various GCMs and select appropriate GCM. In this study, climate data in 25 GCMs 41 outputs provided by Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) was downscaled at eight stations. From preliminary analysis of variations in projected temperature, precipitation and evapotranspiration, five GCM outputs were identified as candidates for the climate change impact analysis as they cover wide ranges of the variations. Also, GCM outputs are compared with trends of HadGCM3-RA, which are established by the Korean Meteorological Administration. From the results, it can contribute to select appropriate GCMs and to obtain reasonable results for the assessment of climate change.

• 한국농림기상학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농림기상학회 2019년도 하계 학술발표초록집
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• pp.259-259
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• 2019

• 대기
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.355-365
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• 2023

To proactively manage climate risk, near-term climate predictions on annual to decadal time scales are of great interest to various communities. This study evaluates the near-term climate prediction skills in East Asia with DePreSys4 retrospective decadal predictions. The model is initialized every November from 1960 to 2020, consisting of 61 initializations with ten ensemble members. The prediction skill is quantitatively evaluated using the deterministic and probabilistic metrics, particularly for annual mean near-surface temperature, land precipitation, and sea level pressure. The near-term climate predictions for May~September and November~March averages over the five years are also assessed. DePreSys4 successfully predicts the annual mean and the five-year mean near-surface temperatures in East Asia, as the long-term trend sourced from external radiative forcing is well reproduced. However, land precipitation predictions are statistically significant only in very limited sporadic regions. The sea level pressure predictions also show statistically significant skills only over the ocean due to the failure of predicting a long-term trend over the land.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2015

급격한 경제 성장과 인구 증가는 온실가스 배출량을 급증시키고 있으며 이는 기후변화를 가속화시키고 있다. IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 보고서는 온실가스가 2000년부터 2030년까지 최대 90%까지 증가할 것이라고 보고하고 있다. 이에 전 세계에서는 기후변화에 대한 피해를 줄이기 위해 기후변화 적응과 완화 대책 수립이 중요시되고 있으며, 우리나라에는 기후변화 대응 정책으로'저탄소 녹색성장(Low Carbon Green Growth)'을 시행하였다. 지자체에서는 친환경적이며 지속가능한 발전을 위한 도시계획을 조성하기 위해 다양한 연구를 수행해왔다. 특히, 기후변화에 가장 크게 영향을 줄 수 있는 토지이용변화에 대한 연구가 활발하게 수행되어지고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 제주도를 대상으로 경제적, 지리적 특성을 기반한 토지이용 균형 모델을 적용하여 주거 토지이용변화와 인구 밀도를 예측하였다. 먼저, 주거부분의 토지이용변화를 보기 위해, 3가지 유형의 시나리오를 구축하였다. 시나리오는 현재와 동일한 환경을 갖는 Dispersion 시나리오, 기후변화 적응 대책을 반영한 Adaptation 시나리오, 기후변화 적응과 완화 대책을 동시에 반영한 Combined 시나리오이다. 그 결과, 전반적으로 Dispersion 시나리오에서 Combined 시나리오로 갈수록 주거면적과 인구밀도가 줄어들었다. 이후 주거면적과 인구밀도 결과를 통해 시나리오별 주거용 에너지 소비량과 예상 인명 피해액을 산정하였다. 그 결과, 전반적으로 Dispersion 시나리오에서 Combined 시나리오로 갈수록 에너지 소비량과 예상 인명 피해액은 줄어들었다. 본 연구에서 제시한 토지이용균형모델을 적용하여 시나리오별 주거부분 토지이용과 인구 밀도 변화 파악은 향후 기후변화 안정성을 확보하고 완화할 수 있는 환경적 도시계획을 수립하는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.149-162
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• 2018

It is necessary to select the appropriate global climate model (GCM) to take into account the impacts of climate change on integrated water management. The objective of this study was to develop the selection technique of representative GCMs for uncertainty in climate change scenario. The selection technique which set priorities of GCMs consisted of two steps. First step was evaluating original GCMs by comparing with grid-based observational data for the past period. Second step was evaluating whether the statistical downscaled data reflect characteristics for the historical period. Spatial Disaggregation Quantile Delta Mapping (SDQDM), one of the statistical downscaling methods, was used for the downscaled data. The way of evaluating was using explanatory power, the stepwise ratio of the entire GCMs by Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) basis. We used 26 GCMs based on CMIP5 data. The Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios were selected for this study. The period for evaluating reproducibility of historical period was 30 years from 1976 to 2005. Precipitation, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature were used as collected climate variables. As a result, we suggested representative 13 GCMs among 26 GCMs by using the selection technique developed in this research. Furthermore, this result can be utilized as a basic data for integrated water management.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.110-119
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• 2007

This study's objects are to predict distribution and to assess vulnerability of sub-alpine vegetations in the Korean peninsula for climate change using various climate models. This study validates relationship between sub-alpine vegetations and environmental factors using Pearson correlation analysis. Then, the future distribution of sub-alpine vegetations are predicted by a logistic regression. The major findings in this study are; First, spring mean temperature (March-May), total precipitation, elevation and warmth index are highly influencing factors to the distribution of sub-alpine vegetations. Second, the sub-alpine vegetations will be disappeared in South Korea and concentrated around Baekdu Mountain in North Korea. North Korea is predicted to have serious impact of climate change because temperature will be increased higher than in South Korea. The study findings concluded that the assessment of the future vulnerability of sub-alpine vegetations to climate change are significant.

• 한국농림기상학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농림기상학회 2015년도 하계 학술발표논문집
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• pp.89-93
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• 2015

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2015년도 학술발표회
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• pp.226-226
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• 2015

The complex climate system regarding human actions is well represented through global climate models (GCMs). The output from GCMs provides useful information about the rate and magnitude of future climate change. Especially, the temperature variable is most reliable among other GCM outputs. However, hydrological variables (e.g. precipitation) from GCM outputs for future climate change contain too high uncertainty to use in practice. Therefore, we propose a method that simulates temperature variable with increasing in a certain level (e.g. 0.5oC or 1.0oC increase) as a global warming scenario from observed data. In addition, a hydrometeorological variable can be simulated employing block-wise sampling technique associated with the temperature simulation. The proposed method was tested for assessing the future change of the seasonal precipitation in South Korea under global warming scenario. The results illustrate that the proposed method is a good alternative to levy the variation of hydrological variables under global warming condition.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.182-200
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• 2023

A recent nationwide survey reported that South Koreans perceive large corporations as the party that should be the most responsible for tackling climate change. This public opinion result offers insight into the argument that defining who is responsible for the climate change issue can guide campaigners and policymakers in designing effective communication strategies. This study examines how attributing responsibility to large corporations can affect behavioral intention to support government policy and regulation via a moderated mediation model of the perceived risk of climate change and corporate social responsibility (CSR). A nationwide online survey of 295 South Koreans was conducted. The findings reveal an indirect effect of responsibility attribution on behavioral intention through risk perception. Moreover, perceived CSR moderated the causal link between risk perception and behavioral intention, such that South Koreans reported higher levels of behavioral intention when they reported higher CSR. However, perceived CSR failed to moderate the indirect effect. These findings have implications for communication processes and policymaking to address climate change problems in South Korea.