Recent trends of mean and extreme precipitation in Korea

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-370

  Jung, Il Won ^a   Bae, Deg Hyo ^a   Kim, Gwangseob ^b  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme; Korea; Precipitation; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; EXTREME; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME VALUE; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; KOREA; MANN-KENDALL TEST; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION DATA; RECENT TRENDS; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL TRENDS; SUMMER SEASON; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WEATHER STATIONS; WINTER SEASONS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL TESTS; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL DATA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

KOREA;

EID: 79951817035     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2068     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Alexander LV, Hope P, Collins D, Trewin B, Lynch A, Nicholls N. 2007. Trends in Australia's climate means and extremes: a global context. Australian Meteorological Magazine 56(1): 1-18.
2. Anselin L, Syabri I, Kho Y. 2006. GeoDa: an introduction to spatial data analysis. Geographical Analysis 38: 5-22.
3. Bae DH, Jung IW, Chang H. 2008a. Long-term trend of precipitation and runoff in Korean river basins. Hydrological Processes 22: 2644-2656.
4. Bae DH, Jung IW, Chang H. 2008b. Potential changes in Korean water resources estimated by a high resolution climate simulation. Climate Research 35: 213-226.
5. Baek HJ, Kwon WT. 2005. The climatological characteristics of monthly precipitation over the Han- and Nakdong-river basins: part I. Variability of area averaged time series. Journal of Korean Water Resources Association 38: 111-119 (in Korean with English abstract).
6. Becker S, Gemmer M, Jiang T. 2006. Spatiotemporal analysis of precipitation trends in the Yangtze River catchment. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 20(6): 435-444.
7. Boo KO, Kwon WT, Baek HJ. 2006. Change of extreme events of temperature and precipitation over Korea using regional projection of future climate change. Geophysical Research Letters 33: L01701, DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023378.
8. Chang H, Kwon WT. 2007. Spatial variations of summer precipitation trends in South Korea, 1973-2005. Environmental Research Letter 2: 1-9, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/2/4/045012.
9. Choi Y. 2004. Trends in temperature and precipitation extreme events in Korea daily precipitation events and their extremes in the southern region of Korea. Journal of the Korean Geographical Society Environmental Impact Assessment 1139(5): 711-721 189-203.
10. Chung YS, Yoon MB, Kim HS. 2004. On climate variations and changes observed in South Korea. Climatic Change 66: 151-161.
11. Chung YS, Yoon MB. 1999. Recent climate change and related factors observed in Korea. Journal of Korean Meteorological Society 35: 309-318.
12. Dietz EJ, Kileen A. 1981. A nonparametric multivariate test for monotone trend with pharmaceutical applications. Journal of the American Statistical Association 76: 169-174.
13. Donohue R, Davidson WA, Peters NE, Nelson S, Jakowyna B. 2001. Trends in total phosphorus and total nitrogen concentrations of tributaries to the Swan-Canning Estuary, 1987 to 1998. Hydrological Processes 15(13): 2411-2434.
14. Groisman PY, Knight RW, Easterling DR, Karl TR, Hegerl GC, Razuvaev VN. 2005. Trends in intense precipitation in the climate record. Journal of Climate 18(8): 1326-1349.
15. Hamlet AF, Lettenmaier DP. 2007. Effects of 20th century warming and climate variability on flood risk in the western U.S.Water Resources Research 43: W06427, DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005099.
16. Hannaford J, Marsh T. 2006. An assessment of trends in UK runoff and low flows using a network of undisturbed basins. International Journal of Climatology 26: 1237-1253.
17. Hasselmann K. 1997. Multi-pattern fingerprint method for detection and attribution of climate change. Climate Dynamics 13: 601-611.
18. Hegerl GC, Hasselmann K, Cubasch U, Mitchell JFB, Voss R, Waszkewitz J. 1997. Multi-pattern fingerprint detection and attribution analysis of greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas-plus-aerosol and solar forced climate change. Climate Dynamics 13: 613-634.
19. Hirsch RM, Slack JR, Smith RA. 1982. Techniques of trend analysis for monthly water quality data. Water Resources Research 18(1): 107-121.
20. Ho CH, Lee JY, Ahn MH, Lee HS. 2003. A sudden change in summer rainfall characteristics in Korea during the late 1970s. International Journal of Climatology 23: 117-128.
21. Huntington TG. 2006. Evidence for intensification of the global water cycle: review and synthesis. Journal of Hydrology 319: 83-95.
22. Im ES, Ahn JB, Kwon WT, Giorgi F. 2007. Multi-decadal scenario simulation over Korea using a one-way double-nested regional climate model system. Part II: future climate projection (2021-2050). Climate Dynamics 30(2-3): 239-254, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0282-5.
23. IPCC. 2001. Climate Change 2001: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of WG I to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Available at [accessed December 30 2009].
24. IPCC. 2007. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of WG I to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Available at [accessed December 30 2009].
25. Jin YH, Kawamura A, Jinno K, Berndtsson R. 2005. Detection of ENSO-influence on the monthly precipitation in South Korea. Hydrological Processes 19: 4081-4092.
26. Jung HS, Choi Y, Oh JH, Lim GH. 2002. Recent trends in temperature and precipitation over South Korea. International Journal of Climatology 22: 1327-1337.
27. Kendall MG. 1975. Rank Correlation Methods. Charles Griffin: London.
28. Kundzewicz ZW, Robson A. 2000. Detecting Trend and Other Changes in Hydrological Data. World Climate Programme. Water, World Climate Programme Data and Monitoring, WCDMP-45, WMO/TD. No. 1013. Geneva, May 2000.
29. Kunkel KE. 2003. North American trends in extreme precipitation. Natural Hazards 29: 291-305.
30. Lee S, Kwon WT. 2004. A variation of summer rainfall in Korea. Journal of Korean Geographical Society 39: 819-832 (in Korean with English abstract).
31. Lettenmaier DP. 1988. Multivariate nonparametric tests for trend in water quality. Water Resources Bulletin 24(3): 505-512.
32. Libiseller C, Grimvall A. 2002. Performance of partial Mann-Kendall test for trend detection in the presence of covariates. Environmetrics 13: 71-84.
33. Liu CM, Zheng HX. 2004. Changes in components of the hydrological cycle in the Yellow River basin during the second half of the 20th century. Hydrological Processes 18(12): 2337-2345.
34. Mann HB. 1945. Nonparametric tests against trend. Econometrica 13: 245-259.
35. Moberg A, Jones PD, Lister D, Walther A, Brunet M, Jacobeit J, Alexander LV, Della-Marta PM, Luterbacher J, Yiou P, Chen D, Klein-Tank AMG, Saladié O, Sigró J, Aguilar E, Alexandersson H, Almarza C, Auer I, Barriendos M, Begert M, Bergström H, Böhm R, Butler CJ, Caesar J, Drebs A, Founda D, Gerstengarbe FW, Micela G, Maugeri M, Österle H, Pandzic K, Petrakis M, Srnec L, Tolasz R, Tuomenvirta H, Werner PC, Linderholm H, Philipp A, Wanner H, Xoplaki E. 2006. Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analyzed for the period 1901-2000. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: D22106, DOI:10.1029/2006JD007103.
36. Nandintsetseg B, Greene JS, Goulden CE. 2007. Trends in extreme daily precipitation and temperature near Lake Hövsgöl, Mongolia. International Journal of Climatology 27: 341-347.
37. Nicholls N, Murray B. 1999. Workshop on indices and indicators for climate extremes: Asheville, NC, USA, 3-6 June 1997. Breakout Group B: precipitation. Climatic Change 42: 23-29.
38. Qian T, Dai A, Trenberth KE. 2007. Hydroclimatic trends in the Mississippi river basin from 1948 to 2004. Journal of Climate 20: 4599-4614.
39. Qinglong Y, Shichang K, Yanhong W, Yuping Y. 2007. Climate change over the Yarlung Zangbo river basin during 1961-2005. Journal of Geographical Sciences 17(4):DOI: 10.1007/s11442-007-0409-y.
40. Oguntunde PG, Friesen J, wan de Giesen N, Savenije HHG. 2006. Hydroclimatology of the Volta river basin in West Africa: Trends and variability from 1901 to 2002. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 31: 1180-1188.
41. O'Sullivan D, Unwin DJ. 2003. Geographic Information Analysis. Wiley: Hoboken.
42. Partal T, Kahya E. 2006. Trend analysis in Turkish precipitation data. Hydrological Processes 20(9): 2011-2026.
43. Pavan V, Tomozeiu R, Cacciamani C, Di Lorenzo M. 2008. Daily precipitation observations over Emilia-Romagna: mean values and extremes. International Journal of Climatology 28(15): 2065-2079, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1694.
44. Peterson TC, Folland C, Gruza G, Hogg W, Mokssit A, Plummer N. 2001. Report on the Activities of the Working Group on Climate Change Detection and Related Rapporteurs 1998-2001. International CLIVAR Project Office Southampton: UK; 143.
45. Portman DA. 1993. Identifying and correcting urban bias in regional time series; surface temperature in China's northern plains. Journal of Climate 6: 2298-2308.
46. Praskievicz S, Chang H. 2009. Winter precipitation intensity and ENSO/PDO variability in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. International Journal of Climatology 29(13): 2033-2039, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1838.
47. Räisänen J, Hansson U, Ullerstig A, Döscher, Graham LP, Jones C, Meier HEM, Samuelsson P, Willén U. 2004. European climate in the late twenty-first century: regional simulations with two driving global models and two forcing scenarios. Climate Dynamics 22: 13-31.
48. Revadekar JV, Kulkarni A. 2007. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation and winter precipitation extremes over India. International Journal of Climatology 28(11): 1445-1452, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1639.
49. Roy SS, Balling RC. 2004. Trends in extreme daily rainfall indices in India. International Journal of Climatology 24: 457-466.
50. Stepanek P. 2007. Software Package for Processing Climatological Data (Complex Solution). Available at [accessed December 30 2009].
51. Su BD, Jiang T, Jin WB. 2006. Recent trends in observed temperature and precipitation extremes in the Yangtze River basin, China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 83: 139-151.
52. Toreti A, Desiato F. 2007. Changes in temperature extremes over Italy in the last 44 years. International Journal of Climatology 28: 733-745.
53. Wang W, Chen X, Shi P, wan Gelder PHAJM. 2008. Detecting changes in extreme precipitation and extreme streamflow in the Dongjiang River Basin in southern China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 12: 207-221.
54. Xu ZX, Takeuchi K, Ishidaira H, Li JY. 2005. Long-term trend analysis for precipitation in Asian Pacific FRIEND river basins. Hydrological Processes 19(18): 3517-3532.
55. Zhai P, Zhang X, Wan H, Pan X. 2005. Trends in total precipitation and frequency of daily precipitation extremes over China. Journal of Climate 18(6): 1096-1107.
56. Zolina O, Simmer C, Kapala A, Bachner S, Gulev S, Maechel H. 2008. Seasonally dependent changes of precipitation extremes over Germany since 1950 from a very dense observational network. Journal of Geophysical Research 113: D06110, DOI:10.1029/2007JD008393.