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- Title
Alteration of hydrologic indicators for Korean catchments under CMIP5 climate projections.
- Authors
Shin, Mun‐Ju; Eum, Hyung‐Il; Kim, Chung‐Soo; Jung, Il‐Won
- Abstract
The change of hydrological regimes may cause impacts on human and natural system. Therefore, investigation of hydrologic alteration induced by climate change is essential for preparing timely proper adaptation to the changes. This study employed 24 climate projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 scenario. The climate projections were downscaled at a station-spacing for seven Korean catchments by a statistical downscaling method that preserves a long-term trend in climate projections. Using an ensemble of future hydrologic projections simulated by three conceptual rainfall-runoff models (GR4J, IHACRES, and Sacramento models), we calculated Hydrologic Alteration Factors (HAFs) to investigate degrees of variations in Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHAs) derived from the hydrologic projections. The results showed that the seven catchments had similar trend in terms of the HAFs for the 24 IHAs. Given that more frequent severe floods and droughts were projected over Korean catchments, sound water supply strategies are definitely required to adapt to the alteration of streamflow. A wide range of HAFs between rainfall-runoff models for each catchment was detected by large variations in the magnitude of HAFs with the hydrologic models and the difference could be the hydrologic prediction uncertainty. There were no-consistent tendency in the order of HAFs between the hydrologic models. In addition, we found that the alterations of hydrologic regimes by climate change are smaller as the size of catchment is larger. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS; HYDROLOGIC cycle; CLIMATE change; HYDROLOGIC models
- Publication
Hydrological Processes, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 24, p4517
- ISSN
0885-6087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hyp.10948