Impact of climate change on hydrological droughts in the upper Namhan River basin, Korea Academic Article

abstract

• 2015, Korean Society of Civil Engineers and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Droughts are natural disasters that greatly affect the environment, the ecosystem and water resources. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of climate change on hydrological droughts and predict future hydrological droughts using the SRES A1B scenario of IPCC AR4 and KMA(Korea Meteorological Administration) RCM climate models. Future droughts are analyzed by considering the joint probability distribution derived by applying the copula method. Results of this study show that severe droughts of short durations will occur more frequently in the near future. In order to determine drought frequencies in the future, SDF (Severity-Duration-Frequency) curves are suggested.

authors

• Singh, Vijay

published proceedings

• KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

• Kwak, J., Kim, S., Singh, V. P., Kim, H. S., Kim, D., Hong, S., & Lee, K.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• Kwak, Jaewon||Kim, Soojun||Singh, Vijay P||Kim, Hung Soo||Kim, Duckgil||Hong, Seungjin||Lee, Keonhaeng

publication date

• February 2015

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

keywords

• Climate Change
• Copula Theory
• Hydrological Drought
• Joint Probability Distribution

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s12205-015-0446-5

start page

• 376

end page

• 384

volume

• 19

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12205-015-0446-5

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action