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Changes In The Extent And Distribution Of Urban Land Cover In The Democratic People's Republic Of Korea (North Korea) Between 1987 And 2010, Sangjun Kang, Jinmu Choi, Hyejin Yoon, Woonsup Choi
Changes In The Extent And Distribution Of Urban Land Cover In The Democratic People's Republic Of Korea (North Korea) Between 1987 And 2010, Sangjun Kang, Jinmu Choi, Hyejin Yoon, Woonsup Choi
Geography Faculty Articles
Largely due to data unavailability, the spatial pattern of urban growth in North Korea has been rarely studied. This study explored urban changes in North Korea and provided their plausible causes. The present study used satellite-based land cover datasets produced by the government of South Korea to examine the extent and distribution of urban land cover in North Korea between the late 1980s (1987-1989) and late 2000s (2008-2010) at the municipal level. Urban Expansion Intensity Index (UEII) was calculated for two ten-year intervals and the spatial autocorrelation of UEII values was examined. Major findings from the study are summarized as …
Impacts Of Climate Change And Urban Growth On The Streamflow Characteristics Of The Milwaukee River (Wisconsin, Usa), Woonsup Choi, Feng Pen, Changshan Wu
Impacts Of Climate Change And Urban Growth On The Streamflow Characteristics Of The Milwaukee River (Wisconsin, Usa), Woonsup Choi, Feng Pen, Changshan Wu
Geography Faculty Articles
Hydrological impact studies of climate change increasingly take land use changes into account. However, the Midwestern USA is still understudied in this context. This study investigated the impacts of potential climate change and urban growth on the streamflow characteristics of the Milwaukee River located in southeastern Wisconsin. The Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF) was set up for the catchment and calibrated against observed streamflow data. The calibrated HSPF model was run with a series of climate and urban growth scenarios generated from nine global climate models (GCMs) and a land use simulation model, respectively. The outcomes from the GCMs, statistically downscaled …