• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.17-40
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to classify climatic environment according to its characteristics in Korea using GIS. The necessary condition of climatic division is that it is able to indicate climatic phenomena systematically and it has scientific persuasive power. Precipitaiton, rainfall days, temperature and weather entropy which are consist of Korean climatic elements are of advantage to indicate climatic phenomena systematically. GIS(Geographic Information System)has scientific persuasive power. This paper shows the time-spatial variations of each climatic elements, using GIS to precipitation, rainfall days, Temperature and weather entropy in Korea. And writers tried to know these regional characteristics and to divide the detailed climatic environment objectively and systematically. The main result of this study is that the regional division of climatic environment in Korea can be classified into 8 types, in details, 26 or 48 types.