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Hydrological Impacts Of Warmer And Wetter Climate In Troutlake And Sturgeon River Basins In Central Canada, Woonsup Choi, S. J. Kim, M. Lee, K. Koenig, P. Rasmussen
Hydrological Impacts Of Warmer And Wetter Climate In Troutlake And Sturgeon River Basins In Central Canada, Woonsup Choi, S. J. Kim, M. Lee, K. Koenig, P. Rasmussen
Geography Faculty Articles
The impact of climate change on water availability in two river basins located in central Canada is investigated. Several statistical downscaling methods are used to generate temperature and precipitation scenarios from the third-generation Canadian Coupled General Circulation Model, forced with different emission scenarios. The hydrological model SLURP is used to simulate runoff. All downscaling methods agree that temperature will increase with time and that precipitation will also increase, although there is considerably more uncertainty in the magnitude of precipitation change. The study concludes that the change in total annual precipitation does not necessarily translate into similar changes in runoff. The …
Characteristics Of Deforestation In The Democratic People’S Republic Of Korea (North Korea) Between The 1980s And 2000s, Woonsup Choi, Sangjun Kang, Jinmu Choi, Joseph James Larsen, Chungweon Oh
Characteristics Of Deforestation In The Democratic People’S Republic Of Korea (North Korea) Between The 1980s And 2000s, Woonsup Choi, Sangjun Kang, Jinmu Choi, Joseph James Larsen, Chungweon Oh
Geography Faculty Articles
There has been a significant lack of land cover change studies in relation to deforestation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). The purpose of this study is to characterise deforestation in North Korea through land cover change trajectory and spatial analysis. We used three 30-m gridded land cover data sets for North Korea representing the conditions of the late 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, respectively, as well as a digital elevation model. We examined the land cover trajectories during the two decades, i.e. which land cover became which at the pixel level. In addition, we calculated topographic characteristics …
Air Temperature Variability In Illinois Based On Weather Station Records And The North American Regional Reanalysis From 1979 To 2006, Woonsup Choi, Anke Petra Maria Keuser, Stefan Becker
Air Temperature Variability In Illinois Based On Weather Station Records And The North American Regional Reanalysis From 1979 To 2006, Woonsup Choi, Anke Petra Maria Keuser, Stefan Becker
Geography Faculty Articles
Spatial and temporal near-surface air temperature 21 variabilities and trends were analyzed for 30 locations in Illinois based on annual data derived from station records and the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) dataset from 1979 to 2006. A high correlation was found between the two datasets regarding interannual variability at most locations. Temperatures were generally higher at urban stations than non-urban stations while non-urban NARR data points showed higher temperatures than urban data points. The differences in medians were not statistically significant in either dataset. Significant positive temperature trends were found in the majority of the weather stations and in …
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 …