Although many studies have sought to characterize future meteorological droughts, a few efforts have been done for quantifying the uncertainty, inter-model variability, arises from global circulation models (GCM) ensemble. A clear understanding of the uncertainty in multiple GCMs should be preceded before future meteorological droughts are projected. Therefore, this study evaluates the uncertainty in future meteorological drought characteristics that are induced by GCM ensemble using the custom measure “the degree of GCM spreading”. Future meteorological drought indices, the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI), were computed to five different time scales: 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 months using statistically downscaled 28 GCMs under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5 at 60 weather stations in South Korea. The frequency, duration, and severity of drought events were estimated for three different future periods; F1 (2010–2039), F2 (2040–2069), and F3 (2070–2099). It was found that the uncertainty increases as the time scale lengthens regardless of a choice of drought indices or RCP scenarios. It also turned out that the SPI exhibits larger uncertainty rather than the SPEI, because temperature data exhibit a relatively much smaller variability comparing to precipitation data. Moreover, there was a shift of regions having larger values of the increasing rate between F1 and F2, which is shift from the north-western to southern region of South Korea.


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    Title :

    Assessment of Inter-Model Variability in Meteorological Drought Characteristics Using CMIP5 GCMs over South Korea


    Additional title:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


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    Publication date :

    2020-09-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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