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Impact of climate change on water resources in Yongdam Dam Basin, Korea

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The main purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate the impact of climate change on the runoff and water resources of Yongdam basin, Korea. First, we construct global climate change scenarios using the YONU GCM control run and transient experiments, then transform the YONU GCM grid-box predictions with coarse resolution of climate change into the site-specific values by statistical downscaling techniques. The downscaled values are used to modify the parameters of a stochastic weather generator model for the simulation of the site-specific daily weather time series. The weather series is fed into a semi-distributed hydrological model called SLURP to simulate the streamflows associated with other water resources for the condition of 2CO2. This approach is applied to the Yongdam dam basin in the southern part of Korea. The results show that under the condition of 2CO2, about 7.6% of annual mean streamflow is reduced when it is compared with the current condition. Seasonal streamflows in the winter and autumn are increased, while streamflow in the summer is decreased. However, the seasonality of the simulated series is similar to the observed pattern

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This study was supported by the 2005 SOC Project (05-GIBANGUCHUK-D03-01) through the Design Criteria Research Center for Abnormal Weather-Disaster Prevention in KICTTEP of MOCT and (2-2-1) from Sustainable Water Resources Research Center of 21st Century Frontier Research Program, KOREA.

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  1. Water Resources Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, 2311, Daehwa-Dong, Ilsan-Gu, Goyang-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea

    Byung Sik Kim & Nam Woon Kim

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, South Korea

    Hung Soo Kim & Byung Ha Seoh

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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00477-006-0081-2

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Kim, B.S., Kim, H.S., Seoh, B.H. et al. Impact of climate change on water resources in Yongdam Dam Basin, Korea. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 21, 355–373 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-006-0070-5

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