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Boo et al. 2004
Boo, K., Kwon, W., Oh, J. and Baek, H. (2004). Response of global warming on regional climate change over Korea: An experiment with the MM5 model. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL021171. issn: 0094-8276.

This study is to investigate changes in regional surface climate arising from global warming with MM5 downscaling simulation for the period 1971--2100. The main focus is on the drought conditions over Korea. Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is utilized as a measure of drought severity. The important findings show the increase of surface air temperature by 6¿C and precipitation by 25% over Korea at the end of the 21st century. The increasing trend of temperature is associated with an increasing trend of evapotranspiration and precipitation. Climatological precipitation amount appropriate for existing conditions is larger than the precipitation amounts. Hence, it actually produces deficit in precipitation. This exhibits a negative PDSI. As a result droughts are expected to be severe and frequent. Better resolved topography in MM5 induces large changes in local precipitation compared with temperature. Consequently peaks of negative PDSI anomalies appear over southern parts of Korea, where a large reduction in precipitation is noticed in addition to warming.

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Keywords
Global Change, Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Hydrology, Drought, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Climatology
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Geophysical Research Letters
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