Climate change effects on tropical night days in Seoul, Korea

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 191-203

  Ha, Kyung Ja ^a   Yun, Kyung Sook ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER VAPOR;

SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84862250252     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0573-y     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Alexander L, Zhang VX, Peterson TC, Caesar J, Gleason B, Tank AMG, Klein HM, Collins D, Trewin B, Rahimzadeh F, Tagipour A, Ambenje P, Kumar K, Rupa RJ, Griffiths G, Vincent L, Stephenson D, Burn J, Aguilar E, Brunet M, Taylor M, New M, Zhai P, Rusticucci M, Vazquez-Aguirre JL (2006) Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation. J Geophys Res 111: D05109. doi: 10. 1029/2005JD006290.
2. Easterling DR, Horton B, Jones PD, Peterson TC, Karl TR, Parker DE (1997) Maximum and minimum temperature trends for the globe. Science 277: 364-367.
3. Gaffen DJ, Elliott WP, Robock A (1992) Relationship between tropospheric water vapor and surface temperature as observed by radiosondes. Geophys Res Lett 19: 1839-1842.
4. Ha K-J, Jeon E-H, Oh H-M (2007) Spatial and temporal characteristics of precipitation using an extensive network of ground gauge in the Korean Peninsula. Atmos Res 86: 330-339.
5. Ha K-J, Shin S-H, Mahrt L (2009) Spatial variation of the regional wind field with land-sea contrasts and complex topography. J Appl Meteorol Climatol 48: 1929-1939.
6. Heo I, Kwon W-T (2007) Temperature change of recent 10 years (1996-2005) in Korea. Clim Res 2(2): 79-93 (in Korean).
7. Heo S-J, Ha K-J, Moon S-E (1997) Characteristic features of the East Asian summer monsoon during 1993 and 1994. J Korean Meteorol Soc 33: 737-751 (in Korean).
8. Kalnay E et al (1996) The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project. Bull Amer Meteor Soc 77: 437-471.
9. Karl TR, Kukla G, Razuvayev VN, Changery MJ, Quayle RG, Heim RR Jr, Easterling DR, Fu CB (1991) Global warming: evidence for asymmetric diurnal temperature change. Geophys Res Lett 18: 2253-2256.
10. Kendall MG (1975) Rank correlation measures. Charles Griffin London: pp 202.
11. Kim YH, Baik JJ (2004) Daily maximum urban heat island intensity in large cities of Korea. Theo Appl Climatol 79: 151-164.
12. Kwon M, Jhun J-G, Ha K-J (2007) Decadal change in east Asian summer monsoon circulation in the mid-1990s. Geophys Res Lett 34: L21706. doi: 10. 1029/2007GL031977.
13. Mann HB (1945) Nonparametric tests against trend. Econometrica 13(245): 259.
14. Peng S, Huang J, Sheehy JE, Laza RC, Visperas RM, Zhong X, Centeno GS, Khush GS, Cassman KG (2004) Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101: 9971-9975.
15. Shukla J (1981) Dynamical predictability of monthly means. J Atmos Sci 38: 2547-2572.
16. Trenberth KE et al (2007) Observations: surface and atmospheric climate change. In: Solomon S et al (eds) Climate change 2007: the physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
17. Um H-H, Ha K-J, Lee S-S (2007) Evaluation of the urban effect of long-term relative humidity and the separation of temperature and water vapor effects. Int J Climatol 27: 1531-1542.
18. von Storch H, Zwiers FW (1999) Statistical analysis in climate research, 1st edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 181-191.
19. Vose RS, Easterling DR, Gleason B (2005) Maximum and minimum temperature trends for the globe: an update through 2004. Geophys Res Lett 32: L23822. doi: 10. 1029/2005GL024379.
20. Willits DH, Peet MM (1998) The effect of night temperature on greenhouse grown tomato yields in warm climates. Agric For Meteorol 92: 191-202.